The Study and Prioritization of Ardabil Province Cities in terms of Tourism Infrastructures and Attractions

One of the problems of tourism in iran, such as Ardabil province is lack of balance in space organization and lack of hierarchy based on interactive relationship between tourism areas. Ranking of substructures and tourism attractions in different areas of a province and balanced distribution of substructures and balance of Inequality in different areas, is one of essential actions of tourism development. Therefore, ranking of areas is necessary for preparation programs of the land for guiding tourists based on possibilities, facilities and tourism substructures and for welfare of tourists and decreasing bioenvironment damages. The aim of present research is the ranking of cities in Ardabil province based on substructures and tourist attractions and studying the effective factors in attracting the tourists and identifying the existent potentials in the regions. The research method is descriptive - analytic and applicational method. The used measures in the present research have been selected by using views of specialists of related area and using the existent theoretical bases. AHP model has been used for determining the importance of the used measures in the research and VIKOR model has been used for ranking the cities of the province. The research results indicate that Ardabil, meshkinshahr, and sarein have been scored 1,2,3 for having substructures and tourist attractions, respectively. The considerable point is that, much tendency is not observed for making related substructures in some of the cities, although they have tourist attractions.