Site Selection for Ski Tourism, Case Study: Ardebil Province

Ski tourism، nowdays in mountainous regions of developed countries، have a specific role and beacause of its great interested and economic advantages in raising local employment and welfare as a growth and development strategy in the world is considered. The Purpose of this paper is both present the method of site selection and recognition susceptible areas for ski tourism، using GIS and RS data techniques، and emphasize on ski tourism، as a recreational-sportive activity. This tourism happens generally in rural areas and countrysides، and attracts special level of urban people which expected bring transformation and development in some moutainous regions. In this study، a touristic region in Ardebil has been chosen according to the suitable snowcapped areas and winter natural attractiveness including Ardebil، Namin، neer and Meshkinshahr provinces. The results of this research indicated that there are numerous potentially places for ski tourism.