Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry
Tourism industry plays an essential role on development of economy and it is considered as one of green industries. Many countries try to promote investment on tourism to create various job opportunities. This paper presents an empirical investigation to rank different factors influencing on tourism...
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Growing Science
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| author | Mojtaba Khalesi Ardakani |
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| description | Tourism industry plays an essential role on development of economy and it is considered as one of green industries. Many countries try to promote investment on tourism to create various job opportunities. This paper presents an empirical investigation to rank different factors influencing on tourism industry in city of Yazd, Iran. The proposed study uses three multiple criteria decision making techniques namely, Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Taxonomy to rank 40 factors. The results indicate that factors such as Being located in the center axis of communication, Strengths in transportation, The ease of access to tourism destinations and Sufficient knowledge of some historical attractions are among important factors influencing tourism industry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4a7790b890b456eb756781db9cfe64e2022-12-22T02:26:26ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-29341923-93432014-05-014591792010.5267/j.msl.2014.3.024Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industryMojtaba Khalesi ArdakaniTourism industry plays an essential role on development of economy and it is considered as one of green industries. Many countries try to promote investment on tourism to create various job opportunities. This paper presents an empirical investigation to rank different factors influencing on tourism industry in city of Yazd, Iran. The proposed study uses three multiple criteria decision making techniques namely, Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Taxonomy to rank 40 factors. The results indicate that factors such as Being located in the center axis of communication, Strengths in transportation, The ease of access to tourism destinations and Sufficient knowledge of some historical attractions are among important factors influencing tourism industry.http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2014_99.pdfTourism industryTOPSISSAWTaxonomy |
| spellingShingle | Mojtaba Khalesi Ardakani Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry Management Science Letters Tourism industry TOPSIS SAW Taxonomy |
| title | Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| title_full | Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| title_fullStr | Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| title_short | Ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| title_sort | ranking different factors influencing on development of tourism industry |
| topic | Tourism industry TOPSIS SAW Taxonomy |
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