Research Information System
28th International Conference on Knowledge Based and Intelligent information and Engineering Systems, KES 2024, Sevilla, Spain, 11 - 12 November 2022, vol.246, pp.2120-2127, (Full Text)
Cultural heritage is one of the most important universal values reflected by past societies to the present day. It is essential to establish management strategies in order to carry out many activities such as protection, renovation, maintenance and repair of cultural heritage effectively and efficiently. For this purpose, cultural heritage management strategies should be created in accordance with sustainable development. Existing strategies can be improved or new ones can be structured by measuring the importance levels of sustainability criteria that should be taken into account in these strategies. This study includes an examination of the sustainability criteria in determining the management strategy of cultural heritage in the city of Istanbul. 18 criteria under the main economic, social and environmental criteria are listed with literature review and decision makers' opinions. Decision makers' linguistic responses are converted into interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy number equivalents. The interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy AHP method, which is a fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, is applied to calculate the weights of the criteria. According to the results of the method, it is revealed that the most important main sustainability criterion is economic (0.5217). Based on the computed results, the most important criteria are ranked as number of foreign tourists visited (0.1223), total income generated (0.0988) and level of economic contribution to local wealth (0.0916), respectively. The aim of this study is to contribute to the determination of qualifications in the creation of cultural heritage management strategies.