Hasan Houshyar; Reza Ghaderi; Hossein Ramadan Tash Dehraji
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Identifying suitable areas to provide the services needed by tourists in the form of tourist villages is one of the most important issues for tourism planners. The aim of this study was to find suitable areas in Mirabad forest located in Oshnoyeh township according to 9 effective indicators in locating ...
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Identifying suitable areas to provide the services needed by tourists in the form of tourist villages is one of the most important issues for tourism planners. The aim of this study was to find suitable areas in Mirabad forest located in Oshnoyeh township according to 9 effective indicators in locating tourist villages (slope, sunshine, land use, land ownership, distance from the line Forests, roads, rural settlements, fault lines and canals). The research approach is descriptive-analytical and applied. In order to analyze the suitable places for the construction of tourist villages in the study area, various GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making techniques have been used. To evaluate and standardize the criteria, the fuzzy logic method has been used, to determine the weight of the criteria and to determine the optimal locations in terms of the studied components, the pairwise comparison and TOPSIS methods have been used. By analyzing the results of the final layer output and its adaptation to the ground realities, three sites based on the degree of desirability for development and creation of a tourist village in the form of 100 by 100 meter pixels (equivalent to one hectare) are proposed and finally proposals for tourism development in the studied area was presented.
Hasan Houshyar; Reza Ghaderi
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The present study focuses on evaluating the quality of residential spaces in Oshnaviyeh, a town located in West Azarbaijan province. Also, individual’s satisfaction of their residential space quality as well as effective indices on housing quality and housing environment are evaluated. Based on ...
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The present study focuses on evaluating the quality of residential spaces in Oshnaviyeh, a town located in West Azarbaijan province. Also, individual’s satisfaction of their residential space quality as well as effective indices on housing quality and housing environment are evaluated. Based on aim, the present study followed an applicable method; and based on its nature a descriptive-analytical one. For data collection, both documentary and field techniques were applied including interview, observation and questionnaire. A descriptive method was used for conceptual framework and theoretical basis, too. The sample size according to the population of Oshnaviyeh is 375 cases, which have been randomly surveyed at the neighborhood level. SPSS and ArcGIS are two applied software in the present study. An examination of six factors in detail showed different results, but the overall results of the research based on the combined indices indicated that: of 12 neighborhoods of Oshnaviyeh, residents of 3 neighborhoods (namely, 1, 2, and 12) have a high satisfactory level against the quality of residential spaces. The satisfaction level for one neighborhood (11) was moderated and, all other residents (including neighborhoods 3 to 10) were dissatisfied with the quality of their residential spaces. Finally, some practical suggestions have been made to reach the full satisfaction of residential spaces of Oshnaviyeh by its residents.
