Document Type : Article extracted from thesis

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1 PhD student in Geography and Rural Planning, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Rural Program, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

3 Professor,Department of Human Geography & Spatial Planning,Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Jiroft University, Jiroft, Iran

Abstract

Exploration the main routes of tourism is an approach to determine the pattern of travel density in order to boost rural tourism businesses. The present study, using fuzzy operators in GIS, deals with the zoning of major tourism routes that have a significant impact on the success of related tourism businesses. The research method is descriptive-analytical using GIS and multi-criteria decision making models. The results show that the villages which are located in four tourist attraction poles. These routes can be modeled as the main traveled rural destinations. Continuously, by using four forms of routes, tried to assess the facilities along the routes and the tourism destinations, the natural and human attractions of each route, based on the target villages and the status of tourism businesses in the villages located on these routes. The results of this step showed that the route number one, with the best distance from the positive (0.1875) and negative (0.0678) ideals and the degree of proximity (0.7346), gained the highest score (main road to Sultan Seyyed Ahmad Shrine).

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