Scienceline Publications Journal of Civil Engineering and Urbanism 2252-0430 6 1 2016 January Strategic Planning of Regional Tourism with Sustainable Development Approach; Case Study: Khaf Region 07 15 http://www.ojceu.ir/main/attachments/article/50/J.%20Civil%20Eng.%20Urban.,%206%20(1)%2007-15,%202016.pdf EN Gholam Nabi Najafi Department of Geography, Kharazmi University, Iran University, Tehran, Iran Asghar Rashidi Ebrahim Hesari Department of Geography, Kharazmi University, Iran University, Tehran, Iran Mohammad Jeddi Department of Geography and urban planning, Islamic Azad University, Marand Branch, Iran Froozan Fatallahzadeh Department of Geography and urban planning, Islamic Azad University, Malekan Branch, Iran One of the confident and practical things to promote urban planners to manage the sustainable regional tourism is to recognize the capabilities and potentials of present tourism in urban and rural centers in order to use of them optimally and also to recognize the existing insufficiency to avoid, plan and reduce the supposed insufficiencies in these two tourism sectors. This study intended to evaluate and analysis the potentials and also insufficiencies of regional tourism in Khaf with sustainable development approach and to provide the regional tourism development plan. The study is a descriptive-analytical in terms of nature and it is an applied one. It is used from librarian and survey methods to recognize the internal and external factors influenced on the regional tourism development of Khaf and to collect related data and information. In survey studies using Delphi method, the perspectives of 50 people elite, experts and local peoples are used. Confirming the factors, the administrative questionnaire is prepared. Its validity is confirmed using statistical population. The Cronbach alpha related to internal and external questions are 0.871 and 0.912 respectively. Then, the internal and external factors are evaluated using SWOT technique, and then they rated using Freedman test. The findings indicated that the final score of internal and external matrix are 4.131 and 4.3 respectively. Therefore, the dominant strategies to develop the regional tourism of Khaf using sustainable development approach are of the kind of strategic offensive (SO). In last, given to results and calculations, six strategies are provided Sustainable Tourism Regional Tourism Strategic Planning Khaf