Evaluating the Environmental Capability of Taziyan District for the Porpose of Ecotourism Management by Using GIS and AHP

Abstract

evaluation of ecological power, inventory assessment and potential power of the land are pre -planned with determined criteria. In recent years, rural tourism are taken into consideration as one of the most important industries, which has needful potential to help local communities to develop the economic activities. This study aimed to assess the ecological power of Tazian district in order to manage the ecotourism in geographical information system by analytic hierarchy process and selection of the most appropriate locations for ecotourism development and formulation of effective criteria.Therefore 9 criteria have been selected as the main criteria and 24 criteria as sub-criteria from different sources. this study, through using the AHP method as well as Choice Expert 11 software, the selected criteria were weighted and prioritized. In this research the Arc GIS 10 software was used for mapping and analyzing the Data display information and or layer Combining. Based on the results, the criterion of tourism infrastructure is the most important and social criterion is the least important one. Also as the results show 74% of Tazian district it has weak power degree, 13% has a middle power degree, 9% of the village has a good power degree and 4% has a high power degree for ecotourism management.

Keywords

• environmental capability evaluation
• ecotourism management
• ahp
• gis
• taziyan district