GIS in Tourism

Tourist GIS

Locational GIS

Geographical Information Systems can be regarded as providing a toolbox of techniques and technologies of wide applicability to the achievement of sustainable tourism development.

People the world over nowadays just do not take holiday trip for rest and recreation. They like to educate and enlighten themselves. Therefore, all countries try to tap their tourism potential not only to entertain visitors but also to highlight their culture and heritage in their natural surroundings, at the same time ensuring that the environment is not seriously affected by manmade activities.

Web based Geographic information systems (GIS) provide ideal platforms for the convergence of tourist information and their analysis in relation to population settlements, surrounding social conditions, spatial characteristics, location and the natural environment. They are highly suitable for analyzing spatial data, revealing trends and interrelationships that would be more difficult to discover in tabular format. Moreover, GIS allows policy makers to easily visualizes the problems, in relation to existing trends and the natural environment and so more effectively target resources.

Along with preparation of the maps, CyberSWIFT’s core expertise also lies in preparation of a web-based system, which would give tourist the facility to work with the map. They will be able to zoom, pan and on requirement can drill down to the smallest informations like the roads through which to reach the tourist locations etc. They will find all information on click, measure distance, find hotels and restaurants and even navigate to their respective links.

This application of GIS in tourism can have advantages both for tourists and for the tourism development authorities

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