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Mazen M. Hama Rashid Bahri S. Fattah Abdul Karim

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    The research aims to study the development of hotels and their geographical distribution in the city of Arbil, which helps the tourist in the city of Arbil to get familiar with all the tourist side of the city, as well as the historical development of hotels by morphology stages in the city of Erbil and increase the number of hotels for the period (1981-2013) in order to see changes winning numbers of hotels and their geographical distribution, As research shows successive historical study of the emergence of hotels in earlier eras, and refers to the fields that existed was to replace the function of Hotels today but was more inclusive, where they exist until the mid-twentieth century. Through the geographical distribution of hotels appeared clearly that more than 43% of the number of hotels in the city of Erbil, located within the range (60-40 m) and the lowest percentage hotels located within zoon (100 m -To outside) and range (40-100 m) by (5)% each, The scope (30-60) accounted for 22% and the center represented a break to 25% of the hotels in the city, in addition to the lack of hotels with a high level of services, and in particular (star fourth and fifth) in the city of Arbil, which serves the specific category of tourists, which is of great importance for the development of the hotel sector in the city. Among the most important findings of the research through geographical analysis of all categories of hotels in the city of Erbil is (1) The lack of the city to the hotels with large areas to provide sports or water activities varied. (2) Few hotels of five-star and pinned down in a specific region and deprive other areas of the emergence of those hotels where. (3) The lack of various types of hotels in the city of Erbil and limited to specific types of them. (4) Lack of presence inside the hotel (mall) which has spread significantly in recent times in the city of Irbil was planned by constructing a medium-sized hotels in this mall, which is a center of great attraction for tourists in the city of Erbil. (5) Most hotels in the city of Erbil, located in the eastern and northern sides of the city, unlike the southern and western sides of less than hotels especially the western side of the city of Erbil ratio there.

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Hama Rashid, M. M. ., & Fattah Abdul Karim, B. S. . (2020). Geographical Analysis of Hotel Distribution in Erbil. Polytechnic Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(2), 12–21. https://doi.org/10.25156/ptjhss.v1n2y2020.pp12-21