Formulation and prioritization of suitable strategies for sustainable tourism development (Case study: Lorestan Province)

This study aimed to identify the encouraging and deterrent forces of the sustainable tourism development in Lorestan province and formulating and prioritize appropriate strategies was done. In this regard, initially deterrent and encouraging forces were identified and prioritized based on ANP method. In the second step with using (PIP) model the most suitable strategies of sustainable tourism development to each of the forces were formulated. Finally in order to prioritize the sestrategies, paired comparisons between the formulated strategies based on research criteria established. The results “job creation” and “property price increasing” respectively were the most important forces among encouraging and deterrent forces. (1-A) strategy with emphasis on efficient and targeted use of increasing incentives to travel between the people in order to the exploit of tourist attractions and products to creating employment and income for the province people as the best strategy is suggested.