Designing fuzzy expert system for creating and ranking of tourism scenarios using fuzzy AHP method

Abstract: One of the most important activities of tour and travel agencies is to select the appropriate tour configuration. There are normally two primary objectives of season and time period to set a group of cities called designing tour scenarios. The success of tour scenarios is deeply related to the experiments and wisdom of the experts and planners in travel agencies. This paper presents a fuzzy rule decision making to find the suitable set of cities where different possible criteria are ranked using analytical hierarchy procedure. The proposed model of this paper is applied for a real-world case study of Iranian tour agency and the results are analyzed under different.

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 Makui, A & Nikkhah, Z. (2011). Designing fuzzy expert system for creating and ranking of tourism scenarios using fuzzy AHP method.Management Science Letters , 1(1), 29-40.

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