Investigation of nautical tourism indicators in the coastal provinces of Iran

Neighbourly Seven province of Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Bushehr, Khuzestan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Hormozgan and with the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Oman Sea And having a long coastline, showed a high potential in the field of nautical tourism. In this regard The purpose of this paper is Investigation nautical tourism indicators in the coastal provinces of Iran. This article is descriptive-analytical and data collected by the library. Data analysis via method of SAW and to give weight to factors AHP method is used. The results of this study show that Hormozgan province with the highest levels of nautical tourism indicators, relative to other provinces, the situation is more desirable. Then respectively provinces of Khuzestan, Mazandaran, bushehr, Gilan, Sistan and Baluchestan and eventually Golestan province have second to seventh ranks in terms of nautical tourism indicators. Therefore should pay special attention to deprived provinces in the formulation of national and regional policies to provide a substrates for their economic development with the benefit of their potential in the field of nautical tourism. It is clear that before any action needs to be planned. Any plan needs in the first phase to quantitative and qualitative statistics and indicators. It is hoped that with the completion of this process in the near future, can be imagine a bright future in the nautical tourism of Iran.