A SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ECOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CASPIAN HYRCANIAN MIXED FORESTS ECOREGION

Autores

  • ALI BALI Faculty of the Environment and Energy
  • SEYED MASOUD MONAVARI Faculty of the Environment and Energy
  • BORHAN RIAZI Faculty of the Environment and Energy
  • NEMATOLLAH KHORASANI Faculty of the Environment and Energy
  • MIR MASOUD KHEIRKHAH ZARKESH Faculty of the Environment and Energy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/bcg.v21i2.41947

Palavras-chave:

Ecotourism, GIS, Decision Support System, AHP, Anzali Watershed

Resumo

Ecotourism, as a form of sustainable nature-based tourism, promotes conservation of ecological and scenic values. In this study, a Spatial Decision Support System, SDSS, was developed based upon Multi Criteria Evaluation, MCE, for ecotourism development in the Caspian Hyrcanian Mixed Forests ecoregion, northern Iran. For this, important criteria and
constraints for ecotourism development were shortlisted using the Delphi Method. The criteria were weighted using Analytical Hierarchy Process, AHP. The obtained results indicated that “distance from water resources”, “land use”, “slope”, “soil”, “climate”, “distance from roads”, “land cover density”, “erosion”, and “distance from residential areas” were the most important criteria, respectively. The findings suggest that GIS-based SDSS is
suitable to engage the various criteria affecting the development of ecotourism destinations. This empirical research develops a new method that can significantly facilitate planning forecotourism development with respect to ecological capability of ecotourism destinations.

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2015-06-30

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BALI, A., MONAVARI, S. M., RIAZI, B., KHORASANI, N., & KHEIRKHAH ZARKESH, M. M. (2015). A SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ECOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CASPIAN HYRCANIAN MIXED FORESTS ECOREGION. Boletim De Ciências Geodésicas, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/bcg.v21i2.41947

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v. 21 n. 2 (2015)

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