Measuring and Ranking the Performance Indicators of Natural and Tourism Infrastructures in the Towns of Ilam, Using Hierarchical Regression and Analysis of TOPSIS

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Undoubtedly, the issue of tourism is not new to the human mind. At first, man tried to reach the untouched and undiscovered earth, but today, he's mostly concentrated on leisure, recreation, tourism, pilgrimage, etc; hence, he added incentive. The main objective of this study was to measure and rank the performance indicators of natural and tourism infrastructures in the townships of Ilam province. The method used was the applied one with a descriptive-analytical nature based on mutual Library. To collect information and data on the scale study, the results of the population and housing census of 1392 were used. Also, to analyze data in the ranking city of research, the TOPSIS model, to identify the impact of selected indicators in tourism analysis and regression analysis software spss were used to show the spatial distribution of GIS software. TOPSIS analysis of the data shows that among the options studied in the townships of Ilam province, the highest rank in terms of research respectively were  Abdanan, Eivan, Mahran., Chrdavol, Dehloran, Darashahr, Malekshahi, Sirvan and Badreh.

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