Determining the corporations investing in tourism with the AHP and ANP methods: Kastamonu sample

The aim of this thesis is to determine the corporation which provides the entrepreneurs with the investing types preferred by the entrepreneurs investing in tourism in Kastamonu. An investing corporation whose standards have been set down, duty and authority have been defined, work-flows have been made up can inform the investors professionally during the process of tourism investment. Also, this corporation can provide the beneficiaries with all the information about the potential investment and can lead the investors healthily. With the scope of this research, alternative corporations providing investment have been introduced and field research about tourism investment and support provided among the corporations in Kastamonu has been made. Also the corporate structure, rate of information sharing, transparency, quality and the system of working co-ordinately in harmony have been elaborated and it has been tried to state which investing corporation is better at the resources being used efficiently by the investors. With the aim of reaching the best results, in this research, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Analytic Network Process (ANP) which are the means of Multi-Purpose Decision Making Method have been used. AHP and ANP are the techniques which have been preferred often by many authors in recent years in solving the decision making problems. With these techniques, subjective evaluation criteria can be used, consistency of the analysis can be tested and the priority of the alternatives which need to be evaluated according to many criteria can be specified. The interview form which was applied in the scope of the technique has been evaluated with the Super Decision packaged software. With the result of the research, it is revealed that the corporation providing the most suitable investing types to the investors and informing and leading about the state assistance is Kuzey Anadolu Kalkınma Ajansı (KUZKA), which is active in TR82 area including Kastamonu, Çankırı and Sinop cities with the coordination of The Ministry of Development.