Recreational Evaluation by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographical Information System (GIS) Case: Forest Park of Martyr Zare, Mazandaran

Tourism which today is one of the most successful industries in the world has an extensive approach in ecotourism. Recreational planning in this type of tourism not only is considered as a tool for promoting social and economic levels of local people, but also due to protective functions as an experienced managerial strategy in the natural resources, provides the situation for dynamic protection. Green space is one of the most important systems of the human life and is important not only for economic reasons but also for environmental reasons as well. Urban Forest Park as a major green space has a positive effect on the urban environmental characteristics and by response to the needs of recreational and entertainment requirements can have an important effect on the urban structure and servicing. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is one of the most important techniques of Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) that was introduced for allocation of scarce resources and planning requirements. Also integrating GIS and AHP have many advantages for the localization and classification of human facilities, different kinds of activities and environmental evaluations and it can be a good way for determining the Suitable and unsuitable areas for the establishment of different types of activities in the fields of agriculture, natural resources, environment, assessment of land capability, land evaluation and… which have spatial dimensions.