Travel agencies have an important role in the development of the tourism. Now the important parts of the development of tourism are related to travel agencies activities. Due to this, in our country so far, few studies have been done in this regard. Mashhad metropolitan, with 20 million pilgrims in each year is a sample. There are 222 travel agencies. Factors affecting the travel agencies distribution were done by the spatial distribution models, such as center median, standard distance, Moran index of spatial autocorrelation and regression. Results show that: Level development zone, near the railway station, bus terminal and the holy shrine are important factor in distribution of travel agencies. Coefficient calculated for these variables are set equal to 0.78 (R2 = 0.78).


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    Title :

    Analysis of the Spatial Disterbutation of Travel Agencies in Mashhad Metropolitan


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    Publication date :

    2012



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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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