Evaluation of Urban old Texture by the Tourism Development Approach Case Study: Darbe Shazdeh District Located in Region No. 8 Shiraz

Today, Iran is faced with a considerable amount of old and timeworn textures. Based on the estimates of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, there are more than 50,000 hectares of urban old texture in Iran, that due to the lack of credits and understanding of quality and characteristics of such regions, the government has faced with several problems in planning and defusing the crisis regarding this large volume of old textures. , Shiraz metropolitan, as the cultural capital of Iran has faced with a great problems in this respect.District No. 8 of Shiraz municipality with its historical texture and as one of the old textures of this city, despite its potential for attracting the domestic and foreign and local tourists, has failed to adapt to the primary principles of modern city planning due to its overgrowth. This study seeks to answer the question that, what are the factors for development of urbam old textures by creative tourism approach? This study aims to identify the areas with tourist-attracting potential in old texture of district No.8 of Shiraz which were also prioritized in terms of tourist attraction. The method of this study is applied- analytical one and the data were collected by field and documentary method.The used tools in this study are Arc GIS software and AHP model (Analytic Hierarchy process). The results revealed that among the factors under study in this research , physical – functional factor with 0.47 was more effective in the creative development of the mentioned historical texture . Moreover , based on the map achieved, different areas of the texture were prioritized and consequently , those areas without priority as well as those with less priority were specified. Therefore, those identified suitable zones could provide creative development in this texture and help to revive it.