Comparison of Results from the Methods of Locating Suitable Spaces for Tourism Site design Using Pralong and TOPSIS (Case study: Shamrood Basin)

Recreation in the areas and parks outside the city has become a need for citizens. Therefore, the identification, selection, analysis and desigining of tourism sites outside the cities is necessary. Variety of methods yet have been innovated for site identification. The main question is that: are the result from different methods similar in the calculation process? The gole of this paper is to analyze the results of Pralong and TOPSIS methods in order to evaluate the capabilities of tourism sites.
First, the capability of tourism sites posisioned by the Shamrud was analysed. Then, these sites have been analysed using two methods of Pralong and TOPSIS and final site has been chosen. At the end these two methods were compared.
The whole results for choosing the final site were found to be similar. Also, the TOPSIS method reflected the differences between sites more intense than the Pralong method and finally both methods reached a similar choice that was equal with people choice.
Combining Pralong and TOPSIS models to achieve applicable decisions will offer better results. Also, from the zones specified in the Shamrood riverbank zone, zone number 4 was selected as the best tourism site for designing