Modelling tourists' accommodation preferences using a combination of Fuzzy AHP and GIS methods
Abstract
It is an important question for tourists which accommodation to choose when travelling. During the selection process, they try to find the location that best meets their expectations of the accommodation and their individual needs. The authors help in the decision-making process by combining the Fuzzy AHP and the GIS methods to evaluate accommodation options
according to different criteria. Applying this method, they explore the following aspects: the price of the room, the distance from the city centre, the degree of the sense of safety, the ratings of the place, whether breakfast is included in the price, and the possibility of free cancellation. In the first part of the research, the Fuzzy AHP method is used to calculate
the weights of the criteria. In the second part, the GIS method is used to map the ranked accommodation options.
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