With the Steep Global expansion in urbaniration and the increasing stress of urban life the people search for relaxing and healing of stress and the natural sights can be a obvious choice The challenging sea. the sunny beaches. the cool breeze the lush green hills. enchanting water falls and small houses in the elongated coconut grooves makes Goa a natulral paradise and people flock here to enjoy this splendid beauty.
Reviewing the popularity of the paradise and to retain its serene beauty it is essential to manage the tourism and to guide the tourists in experiencing the entire astheticness of the paradise it is essential to make a master plan
The complexities of developing and implementing the tourism plan efficiently and successfully have outstnpped the ability of past experience and professional judgement alone to provide the solution. If GOA is to satisfy the tourism infrastructure requirement in consonance to its development pace, decision must be based on more reliable. updated relevant. easy accessible and affordable information. Geographical Information System for "Development of TOURISM Master Plan" has emerged as the technology with considerable potential for achieving dramatic gains in efficiency. and productivity GIS application has relevance in the field of "Development of TOURISM Master Plan" due to essentially spatially distributed nature of tourism related data and need of various types of spatial analysis. statistical analysis. and network analysis
Aim of Tourism Master Plan in Goa:
In chief aim of the Tourism Master Plan is to advice the govt in developing and managing the tounsm, in Goa As also the tounsm has emerged as a major economic activity in Goa so the subsidiary aim will be to monitor the activity in such a way, that it generate the maximum revenue and employment.
Following will be the main objectives of Tounsm Master Plan in Goa.
- To identify the entire major tourist places in Goa and their ciassification based on non-spatial and attribute data in different classes as
- Beaches
- Hill tourist Spots
- Sanduaries
- Heritage tourist spots
- To make an inventory of existing tourist
infrastructure in Goa. and to assess its adequacy
- To develop tourist circuits and virtual
tourist network' with the aim of shifting the pressure of tourist
from coastal and to hinterlands & exploit the tourist
potentials in hinterlands
- Determine duratiori of stay of the tounst.
its spatial distnbution on time scale and account of the
expenditure made on different items in accordance with the income
groups
- To assess the multiplier effect of tourism
activity in generating additional employment
- To assess the impact at tourism in
socio-cultural and economic aspects
- To assess the impact of tourism on environment
GIS in Creating Master Plan for Tourism
The malor problem in tourism master planning is lack of availability of large volume of data Even if the data is made availabie, the riext problem is how to manage and access that data in vanous permutation and combination. Authentic information is the fundamental requirement for decision making process and therefore all the sources were identified as the information required to be reliable, easily accessible and affordable. This demand for information and underlying data requires new approach to the way in which the data related tourism industry should be identified, collected, stored, retrieved, analyzed, communicated, and presented.
An appropriate model is designed to perform spatial analysis, network analysis, and manipulatin.. Most tourism impacts are spatial- that is the impact of services and facilities are in direct proportion to its geographic proximity to other cultural and natural phenomenon. This is the primary reason that GIS has been used for Tourism Master Plan in GOA. At GIS platform, the tourism databases is generally exteded by intercharging huge set of its attribute and spatial data through its linear and non-linear (logic relation) referencing system. Tourism-GIS facilitated integration of all other socio-econommic data, environmental data, demographic data, tourism industry historical data, tourism work force, with database for wide variety of planning and decision functions.
Data Source
In order to develop the TOURISM-GIS, the data were obtained from the following departments
- Department of Tourism GOA
- Public Works Department
- Census Report from Govt. of India
- Survey of India.
- District Panchayat Office
- State Police Department.
- Department of Land Records and Revenue.
- NIC
- GOA Hotel Association
- Goa Travel Association
- Bus Transport
- Railway
- NGOs
- Books and publications Etc.