Urban Management and Tourism Attraction : The Case Study of Khoramabad City, Lorestan Province, Iran

Many theories on economic development have emphasized on the role and importance of investment on the process of economic growth of the societies. Regarding the deficient resource of investment and since these sources must be appropriated to provoke economic development, it is necessary to exactly recognize the comparative advantages of a country to consecrate the investing resources and thereby, exploit these limited resources efficiently to accelerate economic development by conducting the investing sources toward the most efficient and productive sectors. Having this in mind, it seems fatal to use scientific methods of engineering economy and evaluate the projects economically to use them in financial-economic assessments of the projects. This applied study is descriptive-analytic, which, utilizing different criterion for financial-economic assessment as well as enjoying COMFAR (Computer Model of Feasibility Analysis and Reporting) software, assesses economic indexes for investing Khoramabad city and in Lorestan province. The results indicated that operating the tourism-recreational project of Khoramabad city is warrantable according to the indicators of the financial-economic assessment