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International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences

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Priority Classification Strategies to Strengthen Tourism Cluster Project in Qazvin City

Arkia Entezarian, Masoumeh Sadat Abtahi, Mahmoud Modiri

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Tourism cluster model is employing the most effective ways to organize small and medium enterprises . As a result of this organization , small businesses have been able to raise their competitiveness and business environment to provide a creative and dynamic . Beside above point , flexible and innovative cluster development as models of endogenous development are discussed .
The purpose of this research tourism cluster , tourism empowerment strategies for prioritizing projects in the city of Qazvin . The population of Qazvin's crafts staff comprises 100 persons . Cochran formula based on 79 employees was selected as samples .
The method in this research is descriptive and co relational field data collection – a library of software for data analysis and DEMATEL and TOPSIS was used in this method . The research showed a significant effect of the factors affecting tourism strategies and to improve service capability to verify the tourism industry.
At the end the result proposal in order to improve innovation business and also promotion of productivity of human resources in this way has been presented.

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(Entezarian et al., 2013)
Entezarian, A., Abtahi, M. S., & Modiri, M. (2013). Priority Classification Strategies to Strengthen Tourism Cluster Project in Qazvin City. International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences, 2(5), 17–23.