Mohammadhassan Yazdani - Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabil , Ardebil, Iran
Ebrahim Alipour - Ph.D Student of Urban Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardebil, Iran
Amir Hesam Dashti - Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Research University, Tehran. Iran
Bahram Arzhengi - Department of Executive Management, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Ardebil Azad University, Ardabil, Iran

One of the Provinces competitiveness components in attracting tourists is the urban tourism branding and one of the mostinfluential factors in this field is advertising and informing through the mass media which was a key point and the maingoal in this research. This is of applied type in terms of purpose and research and describes the correlation between variablesand is a survey way in terms of research method. The statistical sample of this study was 371 people who were selected bystratified random sampling. Finally, the data were analyzed by SPSS software and the variables were evaluated by AHPand ANP methods. The results of the pair comparison of the criteria indicated that the media advertising with the coefficientof 0.3352 has priority over other criteria for urban tourism development based on urban branding. Interpretation of theresults of the standardized regression coefficients, namely beta (Beta), showed that the representation of tourism places inthe form of tangible facts with beta of 289.0 had the greatest impact on the variable of tourism development and theestablishment of urban branding. Therefore, a standard deviation in the representation variable increased the developmentrate of tourism by a standard deviation of 289.0, on the contrary.

Urban Tourism; Branding; Communication Media; Ardabil Province; AHP Model and ANP