Finally, the application of this paper can be useful for managers and planners working
in the local and central governments and other non-governmental organizations. GIS
can play a key role in documenting natural conditions, developments and documenting
the suitability of resources for tourism, exposing conflicts, and revealing cause-effect
relationships (Dye and Shaw, 2007). In light of this, GIS is providing new tools for
advanced ecotourism management (Tewodros, 2010). The use of GIS is not only ideal
for reducing the time and cost of site selection, but also provides a digital data bank for
long-term and beneficial monitoring of sites (Mazaher et al., 2010).
In addition, AHP analysis provides reflection of real situation of study area. This
analysis was effectively used to calculate the details of the factors and class weights for
ecotourism. Therefore, the integration of the GIS with AHP combines decision support
methodology which in turn facilitates the creation of land use suitability map for
ecotourism. Furthermore, this study should be useful to those who are interested in the
GIS technique, mapping and ecotourism suitability analysis. This study can be used as a
basis for evaluating the suitability of other areas for ecotourism. Additionally, it may
also serve as a starting point for more complex studies in the future taking into
consideration those limitations encountered in this study.