Desirability of Evaluation Parks from the Aspect of Urban Tourism and Spending Leisure Time of Citizenships Using the Copras Model (Case Study: Urban Region Two Metropolitan Ahvaz)

Today, urban parks can play a major role in creating citizens' leisure time and space for their tourism in cities. So that in many urban texts, parks and urban green spaces are mentioned as one of the important indicators for recognizing the quality of man-made environments. Due to the importance of parks and green spaces In today's urban life, the purpose of this study was to investigate the status of active urban parks in Ahvaz metropolitan region 2 in terms of selected indicators (access, health, attractiveness, security and amenities). The type of applied research and research method was survey with emphasis on the questionnaire. The statistical population is citizens living in Region 2 and relevant experts. The weighting of the variables was performed by Shannon entropy model and data analysis was performed using COPRAS ranking technique. The research results show the low and minimum per capita of parks in region two (36.9 square meters) compared to international and national standards. Also, according to the results of Anova test, according to the calculated value of F, which is more than 0.05, the average audience satisfaction with the indicators in the studied parks shows a significant difference. The results of the Coopers model also showed 23 parks in the study area: Island Park, 42-hectare park and government park with final value, respectively; 0.0615, 0.0569,0.0554 are in the first to third place in terms of indicators.