نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Modern urban and industrial life and transportation system development have caused a significant increase in ecotourists in natural areas. Despite the extensive visit of nature lovers, Feridounshahr county lacks favorable accommodation and welfare facilities needed by tourists. Since these arrangements are modern and complex, they are often presented in tourist villages and their location requires to be established in places that have the most efficiency. So, this research, an environmental assessment has been made to determine the most favorable place for tourist village establishment in Feridonshahr County. Therefore, through the integration of 9 information layers of spatial data, including population centers, slope, topography, elevation, land type, river network and buffer, access roads and fault buffer, suitable places for creating a tourist village were monitored. In this regard, first, all digital layers that were effective in locating the optimal areas for creating a tourist village were prepared, and each of them was given a weight based on their importance. Pairwise comparison method was used to weight the information layers for obtain their normalized weight. After weighting, to assemble all digital layers, vector layers were converted to raster and then combined with each other. Results showed that according to zoning and recognition of places prone to tourist villages creation, more than 11% of the County's area has suitable land potential and they are often located in form of scattered areas in the east, north and northwest, which due to the proximity in the county center can to become a bed for the development of tourism and optimal use of tourists from the pristine natural environment. In this regard, the establishment of a tourism village in these areas can lead to the development of nature-oriented tourism in Fardunshahr county and achieve economic achievements and a sustainable environment for the local people.
کلیدواژهها English