Prioritizing tourism destination infrastructure of Kermanshah province with the GIS and SAW technique

Leveling tourism destinations is used as an approach and strategy in order to decrease the misbalances of the area and region. In this manner, the present study is prioritizing tourism destinations infrastructure of Kermanshah province using the SAW and GIS technique. The infrastructures under study in this research includes tourism sample areas, transportation corporations, number of cinemas, theaters, fairs, Islamic holy places, gas stations, public inhabitants, transported passengers, travel agencies, and restaurants. For analyzing the related data related to the tourism infrastructures of Kermanshah province which are extracted from the annual statistics of the year 2013, the decision making technique of simple average weighting SAW in the software of excel and also in order to draw the map of spatial distribution of province’s tourism infrastructure the Arc GIS software was used. The results show that although the Kermanshah province has many touristic attractions but due to not-providing of equipment and required facilitations and imbalanced in distribution of tourism infrastructures, a massive difference exists in the manner of tourism infrastructure in the province. In a manner that the Kermanshah township as the center of the province has the most tourism infrastructure and solasbabajani has put the most enjoyable and the most deprived in the province.