Evaluation and Analysis of Tourism Climate Comfort Index of East Azarbaijan Province Using the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) By Applying GIS

In this research in order to evaluate the tourism Climate Comfort Index, using the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) and climate data gathered from 13 synoptic stations of the state, the state’s comfort condition is explained through one year. In this way, first the climate data related to the studied stations are gathered from Meteorological Organization of the State. After analyzing and processing in Excel and preparing information banks for each one of the indexes with the separation of the each month of the year for every station was calculated. Later, in order to find TCI index, information about this indicator was transferred to the TCI_Calculator software and PET index was transferred to the RayMan Software, Then, using the technique of GIS, Maps of studied indexes were prepared for each month of the year and for each of the stations. The result of studying these indexes showed that, the tourism’s conditions of comfort in the studied stations over the year, based on TCI indicator on January, February, April, July, August, March, May, October, November and December (with three classifications of, marginal, acceptable and good) were the worst in terms of comfort, other months (with three classifications of, very good, excellent and ideal) had the best condition in terms of Tourism comfort. Based on PET indicators June, July, August, May and September had better comforting conditions for tourists, the rest of the year was chosen to have the worst comfort condition for tourists.