Strategic Evaluation the top tourism regions using multi-approval method based on voting system. Case study: tourism regions in Semnan province

Nowadays tourism industry is the largest and the most diverse industry,and it is the main source of income, employment,infrastructure and private sector development in developed countries. In the meantime, identification and top tourism selection as the geographical area which one or more,or a series of historical attractions, natural and cultural,provides an incentive for tourists to visit and stay, could be a factor to improve positive competition among the places and be used in strategic planning. once a community becomes a tourist destination,the lives of residents in that community become affected by tourism activities. Over the past several decades interest in tourism as a tool for regional economic development has grown dramatically. Community leaders and economic development specialists have increasingly treated tourism as an important industry that can enhance local employment opportunities, tax-revenues, and economic diversity.Iran is a country with potential to attract a lot of tourists. with this potential we need a good strategic plan to improve tourism industry in different dimensions.The natural environment is crucial to the attractiveness of almost all travel destinations and recreation areas.Natural resources, the ecosystem, and regional ecology provide an important backdrop to commercial service areas.In this research we intend to select top tourism among the identified areas.in order to evaluate tourism places, the important criteria identified by the other researchers are considered and with the aid of multi-approval method based on voting theory, the top tourism region is chosen.Different researchers have been surveyed many studies to examine and locate the tourism places, each researcher do this with different methods, for example using AHP method, fuzzy, GIS, the combination of them and etc.In this paper we use multi-criteria method based on voting system which is based on expert's opinion. In addition to its simplicity, the other advantages of this method is the capability of applying in group decision making in the form of qualitative and quantitative criteria.This paper is based on a case study that is focused on evaluating 11 different regions in Semnan province. Finally Shahmirzad in Semnan and Abr jungle in Shahrud has been chosen as the top tourism regions of this province.