Planning tourism development with emphasis on geography of the region in order to strengthen the traditional and cultural tourism of Yazd province

Targeted tourism development planning can increase the attractiveness of tourists and bring direct and indirect benefits of economic, socio-cultural and environmental abundance into the multilateral development process, especially economic development for countries that rely on the single-oil economy.in this regard,the present study uses an applied developmental nature and combined research methodology to rank the cities of Yazd province in terms of tourism infrastructure. The province has been referred to the Statistical Yearbook of 2017 for data collection and statistics. For prioritization, the VIKOR multi-criteria decision-making technique has been used. According to the analysis, with the multi-criteria decision making technique of VIKOR, Yazd city with the development coefficient of 0,054, it has the highest infrastructure and regional tourism services, Ardakan city with a development coefficient of 0.280 is second, Mehriz city with a development coefficient of 0,521 Third place is located in terms of tourism development indicators. Taft city with a coefficient of development of 0,559 is in fourth order. Meybod city with a coefficient of development of0/633 is in fifth,Khatam city with 0,778 coefficients was ranked sixth in terms of historical heritage tourism indexes, Ashkzar city with a development coefficient of 0,821 Seventh rank, Abarkouh city with a coefficient of 0,848 is in the eighth position, Naein city times by a factor of 0,908 in the horizon and the city Bahabad by a factor of regional development, tourism development have is the one with the lowest components.