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Mohammed, Mohammed Watman, Feizizadeh, Bakhtiar, Klug, Hermann, Ghanbari, Abolfazl, Blaschke, Thomas |
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GeoJournal; Jun2023, Vol. 88 Issue 3, p3283-3306, 24p |
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Identifying the potential of ecotourism sustainability is one of the priorities of many countries, it is a goal for effective and efficient resource use on earth. Analyzing the growth of the economy and conservation methods for sustainable developing countries can be achieved by determining the possibility of ecotourism sustainability. And, it is essential to base the evaluation on sustainable development. This study assesses and maps the potential for sustainable ecotourism development using geospatial multiple approaches. Using 28 casual indicators within the three major groups of criteria of natural attraction, human attraction, and service tourism attraction were determined and integrated according to geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis. The indicators were prepared from different resources and standardization, criteria ranking, weighting, and spatial aggregation were performed to carry out the ecotourism suitability map in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI). The result has produced a map to identify areas with a high potential for ecotourism sustainability in (KRI). The ecotourism sustainability map shows that about (54%) of the study area has a rating of very high, very good, and good suitability. This means the majority of the study area has a high potential for sustainable ecotourism development. It can be concluded that GIS—Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has a good ability in combining multiple datasets to produce suitability maps. The results could be used as a basis for tourism-related development plans by the Kurdistan region government and private sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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