Analyzing and Prioritizing the Dimensions Affecting the Tourist’s Perception of the Ferdowsi Commemoration Event

Event tourism is one of the important motivational factors in tourism, which is important in the development and marketing programs of most regions. If managers at all levels and in all forms of tourism, consider one-dimensional development and develop without considering the stakeholders, they will not be able to create sustainable attractions and achieve various goals. The present study in order to plan regional development and marketing and achieve multidimensional development with the aim of analyzing the dimensions affecting tourists' perception of cultural events using a combined methodology and descriptive-survey method to identify, prioritize and analyze Various dimensions of success have dealt with the factors affecting the perception of tourists.  For this purpose, we analyzed and categorized by help of experts, and through qualitative analysis and conceptualization, the various dimensions presented by previous researches; and extracted dimensions affecting the perception of tourists of the even. Then, by conducting a survey study and using Cochran's formula, we selected 350 tourists participating in the Ferdowsi commemoration event in Mashhad in 1998 as a sample and analyzed Analyzed, categorized and prioritized their perception of how successful the event was and then the dimensions identified by fuzzy TOPSIS method. The final analysis of the components explaining the perception of tourists from the Ferdowsi commemoration event indicates that it is important that interactive-social perception is the most important priority for tourists. In the second place is the importance of personal perception that can show itself in personal satisfaction, good hope and quality of the event