Zahra Bahari Sejehroudi; Mohammad Taleei
Abstract
Today, tourism is considered as one of the economic resources, especially in countries with a cultural history and numerous tourist attractions.In this regard, tourist advisory systems have been designed to help tourists. Planning tourism prior to traveling, allows a person to have a better visit and ...
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Today, tourism is considered as one of the economic resources, especially in countries with a cultural history and numerous tourist attractions.In this regard, tourist advisory systems have been designed to help tourists. Planning tourism prior to traveling, allows a person to have a better visit and see more places. Therefore, it is necessary and inevitable to do so. Various and numerous factors are involved in tourism planning. Time management and the selection of tourist attractions in accordance with one's interests are among the most important of these factors. In the present article, a web-based tourism planning system was designed and implemented to help tourists to visit favorite attractions in the shortest time possible. In the development of this system, the integration of methods based on spatial decision-making support system and spatial analysis functions have been used. The criteria taken into account in it, include criteria related to geotourism and effective geological factors and other types of tourism. The designed system carries out the tourism planning through information such as interests, number of days and the starting location of the tourist for each day separately and together with the presentation of the daily tourist plan, it determines the best route between the selected locations, and performs both the spatial and temporal management simultaneously. This system was implemented for Tehran's tourist sites and its capabilities were evaluated.