Using GIS And Application For Tourism



4. Application
This study was carried out in Esfahan, which has a lot of historical and tourist places. These results can be achieved by queries in GIS Design and Application for Tourism:
  • Determination of important and necessary places for tourism.
  • Determination of historical and tourist places.
  • Determination of the best suitable hotel.
  • Determination of the optimum plan for sightseeing places
  • Determination of the shortest distance between the selected places


Figure 2. Distance between museums and Optimum Sightseeing Planning



Figure 3. Detailed information about object and optimum route for sightseeing

With ArcView Network Analyst, there is the ability to calculate the shortest route between places and also to generate directions. These can be printed out for a client and would make it easier for him/her to get to the required destination by following the mapped out directions. Information on the type of road, the width and whether it is tarred or not can be obtained from the attribute tables. This is also required and enables those visitors who will be driving to choose the best mode of transport to use.

Queries can be made on parks and hotel concerning their accessibility from the nearest distance and mode of transport. Services provided at each park can be obtained from the tables. By clicking on several points in each park, information on the animals, birds or vegetation in that section can be obtained. This list of queries is endless, and unique to every potential tourist. For the system to be more effective, it can also be made available on the Internet for access by lots of potential visitors from the country and other parts of the world.

5. Problems and Suggestions
There were not standards among the data during the system creating process and some problems occurred during transferring the graphical data to the GIS. Afterwards, the standards were formed between graphical and non graphical data. All of the problems among the graphical data were solved by Arc Info Software.

Tourism has been considered to be one of the crucial industries in the world due to being source of income. It also enables people from different cultures to interact with each other. Therefore, every country must be conscious of tourism and make use of GIS directed towards tourism effectively. Every country should advertise her history, architectural characteristics of buildings in order to make them known all over the world. These details can be obtained in a query by forming a spatial connection with GIS.

6. Conclusion
In this study; optimum planning for sightseeing, query of geographical data, obtaining the visual and detailed information about the geographical data and network analysis applications were carried out. GIS design and application for tourism and network analysis help users to supply optimum planning for tourism. Moreover, users seem to save time via GIS design. In the future, importance of GIS will continue increasingly.

7. References
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  • S.Rostami, Tourism and GIS, 2000.
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  • http://www.esfahan.ursus.maine.ir/gisweb/spatdb/egis/eg94202.html (accessed 7 feb 2005).
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