Assessment of Investment Priorities in Semirom Specialized Tourism Areas

Nowadays tourism and related activities has become as one of the main alternatives for regional development. This is because ofits role on diversification of national and regional economy development. In many countries¡ investment in this industry and its related infrastructure is one of the basic priorities. Identification of regions position in terms of tourism potential and prioritizing them according to different criteria for investment and the development is one of the essentialrequirements for tourism planning and development. According to this approach¡ present paper has evaluated investment priorities in Semirom specialized tourism areas. Method research of this study is descriptive-analytical¡ and necessary data had collected through documentary-survey. The results showed that among Semirom specialized tourism areas¡ Semirom waterfall¡ Zeid-ebne Ali and Vanak enjoy better conditions for investment and assign priority from 1 to 3 respectively and other regions are placed in next priorities.