Evaluation of ecotourism sites: a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis

Kybernetes

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 1664-1686

  Çetinkaya, Cihan ^a   Kabak, Mehmet ^b   Erbaş, Mehmet ^c   Özceylan, Eren ^d  

^a ADANA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c General Command of Mapping   (Turkey)

^d GAZIANTEP UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Black Sea; Ecotourism site selection; Geographic information system; PROMETHEE

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; GOLF; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LOCATION; SITE SELECTION; TOURISM;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BLACK SEA; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ECO-TOURISMS; ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PROMETHEE;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85045207635     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/K-10-2017-0392     Document Type: Article

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