Determination of Tourism Routes Using the Method of the Shortest Distance from the Best Decision Case Study: Damghan historical city

path length as an effective economic parameter to identify a tourist route by tourist is considered in this paper, which is not considered in previous works about tourist routes determination problem. Considering the path length causes this problem to be converted into a multi-objective multivariable decision making problem because tourist likes paths where there is the maximum number of Tourist Attractions in minimum path length. The introduced problem is more complex than the single-objective multi-variable decision making problem in the solution point of view. The matching technique and the method named "minimum distance from the best decision" are proposed for solving the introduced problem in this paper. Therefore, a new method is used in this paper to find the tourist route where have both the maximum value in different attraction indexes and the minimum path length. The proposed solution method is implemented in the region of Dameghan City, where is a historical city in Semnan steady, to rank all of the paths with the Destination of Damghan. The results show that the proposed method selects the tourist routes where have both the maximum number of tourist attractions and the minimum path length in the Damegan region.