Land Capability Evaluation for Tourism Using GIS (Case Study: the Tight Solk Bahmaei, Kohgiloyeh and Boyerahmad)

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Ecotourist is responsible tourist which visit of natural areas and have also negative impact. This study identifies ecological capability of Solak sight over 2326 hectares for ecotourism, by systemic analysis method (Boolean logic) based on Ecological Tourism Makhdoum model. To accomplish this aim,at first the environmental resource of the area were collected and by overlaying data layers in GIS environment and the use of Makhdoum ecological model extensive recreation and inttensive recraetion areas were identified for a variety of ecotourism. The results showed that, 58/133 hectares of the area is capable for intensive recreation on class2 and 81/485 hectares is capable for extensive recreation class

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