Nowadays, electronic-tourism is considered as one of the biggest economic sectors in most countries. Our country also must take some steps to develop it.
One of the basic actions of electronic tourism development is classification of electronic-tourism infrastructure in different zones of a province and a balanced distribution of infrastructures and adjusted inequality in different regions.
The study area is the vast province of Isfahan in central Iran, including 23 of the cities and is the leading province in the field of information technology.
In addition to the study of electronic-tourism and information technology and its spatial distribution among the different cities of the Isfahan province, this study is used to classify and level these cities based on the electronic-tourism indicators including infrastructures of information technology using TOPSIS model So, realizing the infrastructures and classification them within the mentioned regions helps to have a better management on tourists and develop electronic tourism.
The research method adopted here is descriptive - analytical and survey. TOPSIS model and SPSS software were used for analyzing the data. Preliminary results indicate that referring the considered criteria for leveling the cities ,some cities such as Isfahan, Shahin Shahr and Khomeini Shahr, are in first to third grade, respectively in electronic –tourism indicators. Fereidoonshahr and Semirom also have been graded as last ones.
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