In the present age, tourism is one of the greatest and most various activities and one of the main sources of national economy in developed countries and a few developing countries. Constant tourism development is of great importance for tourism planning because such development has a great effect on fortifying economic foundation of societies. Great emphasis has been attached to the role of tourism as a fresh source for job creation, earning money, collecting more taxes, attracting exchange and fortifying social substructures, which cause growth and development of other industries in various transactions. Moreover, tourism development is associated with activities and attractions in a natural environment, cultural heritage and cultural pattern accordingly. If sources are faded and perished, tourism areas shall not be able to attract tourists anymore and tourism will decay in the region .The goal of this paper is to evaluate and to assess touristic attractions in Mashhad City. Here in this research, twelve criteria, resulted from Delphi Group Questionnaire, have been specified and evaluated. Respective methods used in this research consisting of Delphi technique for designating criteria , TOPSIS in order to specify priority and grading touristic attractions and entropy for weighing the said criteria . Corresponding results obtained from such study have revealed that conforming to surveys and analyses conducted, attractive tourism zones of Mashhad City for tourists are a religious attractions, museums, shopping centers, holy shrines and cemeteries, monuments, caravansaries, historical inscriptions, historical relies, buildings, castles and dams.

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