Strategic Planning of Sustainable Development of Eco tourism with Applied of Combined SWOT and ANP: Case Study (Kurdistan)

Sustainable tourism development is development of tourism and attract tourists to a region using available resources in a manner that will meet the needs of resident and expectations of tourists. According this view, successful development of a sustainable tourism must create dynamics relationships between people, resources and tourism and also brings benefits to all of them.In different ways, any area with focus on its potential and existing facilities can be developed. In order to development of any region, first step is economic development. Due to this, because the main purpose of tourism are income generation and attracts investment to the region, so tourism and especially ecotourism can has a key strategic role in the development of tourism in the region. Offering strategic approach for sustainable development of ecotourism in Kurdistan province and ranking them is the main aim of this study. Based on theoretical- practical, methods of this study is descriptive - analytic. The result indicated that the positive attitude towards tourism (476 %), Weakness or lack of government support for private sector (411%), increasing tend to tourism activities and particularly ecotourism activity and potential of Kurdistan in this filed (434%) and subsidies and the resulting increase in fuel prices and its negative impact on the travel and tourism (476%), are most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The results of ANP also shows that for sustainable development of ecotourism in Kurdistan, defensive strategies (WT) should be a priority.