IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spt/admaec/v4y2014i5f4_5_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Studying Iran`s Tourism Industry Position in Middle-East using Tourism Development Indicators and TOPSIS Method

Author

Listed:
  • Akram Gheybi Hashemabadi
  • Mohammad Javad Razmi

Abstract

Today, tourism economy has a crucial role as one of the main principles of commercial economy in global economy. However, despite its ample tourism attractions Iran does not enjoy an acceptable place in world. Present study tries to answer to the question that regarding economic indicators of this industry what is Iran`s position compared to other middle-east countries? In addition, Iran`s position is investigated during economic development plans. To study Iran`s position, totally nine indicators are selected: indicator of total participation of tourism industry in GDP, total participation of tourism industry in jobs created, internal travel and tourism expenses, government expenses, tourist export, domestic consumption of tourist, travel, tourism and commercial expenses, holiday travel and tourism expenses and finally, investment indicator in tourism sector. TOPSIS method is used to compose said indicators. Results show that during economic development plans, Iran has gained these ratings respectively: 6th rating in 1989, 6th rating in 1996, 4th rating in 2000, 5th rating in 2005, 5th rating in 2011, and 5th rating in 2013 among middle-east countries.

Suggested Citation

  • Akram Gheybi Hashemabadi & Mohammad Javad Razmi, 2014. "Studying Iran`s Tourism Industry Position in Middle-East using Tourism Development Indicators and TOPSIS Method," Advances in Management and Applied Economics, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 4(5), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:spt:admaec:v:4:y:2014:i:5:f:4_5_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.scienpress.com/Upload/AMAE%2fVol%204_5_7.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spt:admaec:v:4:y:2014:i:5:f:4_5_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Eleftherios Spyromitros-Xioufis (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.scienpress.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.