Abstract:
Tourism industry with direct and indirect employment and as a result, Make money for tourist destinations, Plays an important role in the region economy. To achieve this income, The tourist must first be attracted And in order to enjoy the benefits of tourism, Prioritize tourists in choosing tourist destinations. So, considering that most tourists in Iran are domestic tourists because of limited foreign tourism And many domestic travels in Iran are also religious visits to holy places such as Mashhad and Qom; the purpose of this investigation, identification of priority of tourism attractions in Mashhad using entropy technique is VICOR and SPSS. The motivation for studying this research is to examine the welcome of tourists to all kinds of new and old attractions in this city. The results showed that in total, Imam Reza's port is the first priority of tourism attraction among tourists and officials studied and other tourist attractions are in the forefront. So the city of Mashhad has not been successful with the new attractions created for the development of tourism in this city.
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Prioritizing Tourism Attractions with the Aim of Tourism Development (Study Area: Mashhad City) Date of Article Receipt: 2021/04/04 Date of Final Acceptance: 2021/05/10 Sedigheh Zakeri *1 Tahereh Sadeghloo 2 1- Master of Geography and Urban Planning, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran 2- Assistant Professor of Geography and Rural Planning, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Abstract The tourism industry, through direct and indirect job creation and consequently generating income for tourist destinations, plays an important role in the regional economy.
Therefore, considering that many domestic trips in Iran are religious visits to holy sites such as Mashhad and Qom; the aim of this research is to identify the priority of tourism attractions in Mashhad city using Entropy, VIKOR, and SPSS techniques.
Therefore, the aim of this research is to rank the tourism attractions of the city of Mashhad.
In the first stage, criteria and indicators for evaluating tourism attractions were prepared based on library studies and existing theoretical foundations in the field of tourism, and then using random sampling, we proceeded to prepare two questionnaires for tourists and relevant officials.
(Refer to the page image) (Refer to the page image) (Refer to the page image) Based on this model, the prioritization of Mashhad city attractions for tourists is as follows: The first priority of the studied tourists is the shrine of Imam Reza(as).
Evaluation and prioritization of tourism attractions for urban tourism development based on multi-criteria decision-making models, Quarterly Journal of Geographical Research, Consecutive No. 101.