Estimate of tourist seasons for Erbil governorate Using the Tourist Ports Guide (TCI)

Abstract

The study aims to determine the type of prevailing climate according to one of the latest tourism climate criteria, which is the Tourism Climate Index (TCI), which was used in 1985 by Miecszkowski (1985, Miecszkowski). This is due to the importance of the climate’s role in activating and defining the months of climatic comfort. Because the study area has many tourist potentials due to the difference in its diverse geographical environments, the nature of its terrain and its physiographic division.

The study relied on (five) climatic stations distributed over the different terrain environments in the governorate, and the study concluded that, the climate of the study area is characterized by the absence of varieties that are not suitable for tourism