Geographical Engineering of Territory

Geographical Engineering of Territory

Optimal prone Areas Site Location of Rural Ecotourism using the Analytic Hierarchy process in GIS (Case Study: Sistan region)

Authors
1 universiti
2 citi
3 rasht
Abstract
Ecotourism is a sustainable form of tourism, so that today it is recognized as one of the criteria for major development. And two-way interaction between ecotourism and sustainable development there, So that the country can say as much greater degree of development, as well as the greater number of ecotourism as well. Research methods in applied research and analytical approach to governing, Spatial analysis software ARC / GIS10 and AHP to determine the weight of each factor in the model is applied. In this study, the 7 factors including slope, slope aspect, vegetation, land use, soil, temperature and distance from protected areas in GIS to locate the optimal operation of ecotourism is prone areas. The results show that %5/16 of the least important priority, medium priority, with 9/14 per cent, with %32/67 of high priority, high priority by %33/25 and by %19/76 of the area's exceptionally strong preference allocated. And strong exceedingly important to be allocated.
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Volume 2, Issue 3
September 2018
Pages 33-45

  • Receive Date 20 April 2017
  • Accept Date 11 September 2018
  • Publish Date 23 August 2018