Cluster analyze, a technique for implementation of spacial justice in tourism planning (Case study: Mazandaran province)

How and why the tourism destinations development in mazandaran province demonstrates inordinate density and concentration of activities and facilities in some regions and foreclose in another region, while, these regions may have high potentials in tourism development. This disequilibrium indicates that concept of spacial justice –balanced in development and competence- don’t attend in mazandaran tourism development planning or its implementation accompany with some difficulties. The Cluster analyze is among of techniques to utilize in spatial justice. Base on similarity principle, it is divided tourism destinations to clusters that have maximum within the group member’s similarity and minimum between groups similarity. The technique performs in Hierarchical, Partitioning and hybrid methods.
This analytical-descriptive article notices to illustrate how cluster analyses implementation in mazandaran tourism destinations (countries) and descriptive its different methods. The Most important result of this article is about classification of the optimum position of Mazandaran tourism destination which can be useful for managers and policy makers. The Results illustrate that the optimum position of Mazandaran tourism destination based on capacity of tourism development divided to five classes.