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Identify and Rank Barriers to Tourism Development
Parchekani Choozaki Parvaneh
Department of Geography and Tourism Planning, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences 2013 7:350-358
Received: December 26, 2012 | Accepted: February 01, 2013 | Published: July 20, 2013
Abstract
This is a survey study and is practical and in nature is analytical descriptive. This is an analytical study because samples were used to collect data and it is descriptive because its variables are studied and reported as there are in the real world. In this study we study the barriers to tourism development and will rank the barriers for the use planners. In this study, to determine the validity the content validity was determined and to determine reliability the Cronbach's alpha method has been used. Also to check the normality of questions’ answers the Kolmogorov - Smirnov test is used. The sample population has also been determined by computational methods. In conclusion, according to the results of questionnaires and fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy process method, results were presented in two parts: result analysis for ranking the barriers to the development of tourism and suggestions.
Keywords:
Tourism, tourism barriers, tourism development,
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
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ISSN (Online): 2041-0492
ISSN (Print): 2041-0484 |
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