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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.
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
A ayatematic and coherent implementation of GIS was adopted for development of an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive database. The lowest unit for the tourism master plan for development of spatial database was village. The spatial database was created separately for each district which was mosaic later for date database. The attribute data related to tourism industry were prepared separately for each district maintaining the capabilities of its lateral integration with spatial data. Separate customized routines were added for enhancing the database management for processing the attribute data and topologically structured graphic data. Since the data at GIS platform was tried to a common referencing system, it was easy to use the same data across multiple queries and applications as well as to associate diverse data sets, was previously not possible for joint analysis.
GIS Output
The customized query model was developed for an Interactive query in text, report, and graphic format. Following major query model were developed for Tourism Master Plan for GOA
Identification of Tourist Spots:
The Master Plan of Goa identifies and classifies the tourist places of Goa into following categories:
The next task in Master Plan is a detailed inventory of the infrastructure available like Networks:
Trendy Study:
The third task carried out by the Master Plan was trend study. The GIS can also be used here to forecast the Tourist visiting Goa and it can also be predicated that which areas are going to have more concentration of tourists. The arrival of tourist by different transport modes like chartered flights, roadways railways will be collected as traffic management can be done accordingly. Tht trends of tourist arrivals in different seasons can be analyzed & accordingly GIS can be used to predict how the tourist pressure can be managed in particular season.
SWOT Analysis:
A SWOT analysis can be done about tourism by using GIS technology to identify the strength & weakness in development of tourism. The opportunities of further development can be identified by geo-processing and plans are drawn of see how they are to be utilized optimally like newer fields of educational tourism, health tourism (as in Kerala), Business Tourism (by promotion of fairs & festivals) entertainment tourism (like making amusement parks, water parks, aquariums, casinos), adventure tourism (trekking water skiing, wind surfing etc. Cultural tourism is to be promoted.
Specific GIS query and overlay & buffer analysis as:
The next job of the tourism master plan is to identify the new tourist areas by studying the terrain, accessibility and other physical features. The impact of Tourism has to be studied in economic terms, social vakues & environmental sensitivity. For measuring economic impacts the average duration of stay of tourist and the average expenditure done by them is tabulated and a total revenue generation is calculated. Further it is analyzed that how much money generated can create how many employment. A multiplier effect is also analyzed. The GIS technology finally helps in analysing that how the tourism sector is contirbuting in the economy of Goa. The laying of tourist infrastructure can deplete the forest cover the physical environment of coasts & beaches cn be degraded by increasing pressure of tourist like the plastic pollution in the beaches are common endangering the beach eco-system. GIS will help in identifying the endangered environmental areas and provide solution for effective management.
Developing Tourist Circuits
Generating Tourist Circuits by weighted overlay analysis of different tourist spots is being proposed in the Master Plan.
Conclusion
The Master Plan Tourism for Goa thus emphasis inventerisation of all existing & probable tourist spots, the infrastructural facilities existing at the tourist centers & a comparison with estimated demand at present & future and identification of gaps in current situations; the trend analysis & future projection of tourist influx and the impact of tourism on socio cultural & environmental setup and finally the generation of tourist Circuit. GIS plays a crucial role in measurement, mapping, monitoring and modelling of the entire plan.
Processess for Prepaing Spatial and Attribute
Geographical Information System(GIS): Information technology for planning management and development of GOA tourism master plan in next millenium
Dr. P. K. Pandey, Ruma Chakraborty
Consulting Engineering Services India Ltd.
57, Nehru Place, New Delhi
Dr. P. K. Pandey, Ruma Chakraborty
Consulting Engineering Services India Ltd.
57, Nehru Place, New Delhi
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
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.
A ayatematic and coherent implementation of GIS was adopted for development of an up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive database. The lowest unit for the tourism master plan for development of spatial database was village. The spatial database was created separately for each district which was mosaic later for date database. The attribute data related to tourism industry were prepared separately for each district maintaining the capabilities of its lateral integration with spatial data. Separate customized routines were added for enhancing the database management for processing the attribute data and topologically structured graphic data. Since the data at GIS platform was tried to a common referencing system, it was easy to use the same data across multiple queries and applications as well as to associate diverse data sets, was previously not possible for joint analysis.
GIS Output
The customized query model was developed for an Interactive query in text, report, and graphic format. Following major query model were developed for Tourism Master Plan for GOA
- The overall view of terrain characteristics of the state and the locatin of the tourist spots, in relation to the terrain.
- The accessibility to the particular spots and the available infrastructure facilities of the spot may be analyzed the problems in respect to the infrastructure can be identified.
- The type of tourist visiting the placesa (domestic/foregn) & their respective expenditure on various items.
- Type of economic activities centers as food, bars, hotel & restaurants, on time scale.
- Transport and related services.
- It is visualized that by applying the tourism multiplier how the economy is going to be enhanced.
- To identify the location of new tourist spots.
- Possibte impact of new tourist spot/activity on socio-economic and environmental aspects at particular location.
- Vivid picture of how the tounsm activity may degrade or deteriorate the existing environment of Goa on time scale.
Identification of Tourist Spots:
The Master Plan of Goa identifies and classifies the tourist places of Goa into following categories:
- Beaches
- Churches & Chapels
- Tempiese Mosques
- Heritage Towns
- Museum & Art Galleries
- Wild Life Sanctuaries
- Springs
- Other places of interest
The next task in Master Plan is a detailed inventory of the infrastructure available like Networks:
- Transport
- Accommodation in terms of hotels, their categories, number and available rooms in them
- Existing water supply system, demand of water for different purpose like urban water supply for tourism, Rural water for tourism
- Sewage collection & treatment system
- Power generation and consumption
- Touroperators and travel agents
Trendy Study:
The third task carried out by the Master Plan was trend study. The GIS can also be used here to forecast the Tourist visiting Goa and it can also be predicated that which areas are going to have more concentration of tourists. The arrival of tourist by different transport modes like chartered flights, roadways railways will be collected as traffic management can be done accordingly. Tht trends of tourist arrivals in different seasons can be analyzed & accordingly GIS can be used to predict how the tourist pressure can be managed in particular season.
SWOT Analysis:
A SWOT analysis can be done about tourism by using GIS technology to identify the strength & weakness in development of tourism. The opportunities of further development can be identified by geo-processing and plans are drawn of see how they are to be utilized optimally like newer fields of educational tourism, health tourism (as in Kerala), Business Tourism (by promotion of fairs & festivals) entertainment tourism (like making amusement parks, water parks, aquariums, casinos), adventure tourism (trekking water skiing, wind surfing etc. Cultural tourism is to be promoted.
Specific GIS query and overlay & buffer analysis as:
- A total of 29 beaches have been identified out of which 12 are located in North Goa and are heavily crowded, the 17 beaches of South Goa are almost alien and they should be developed.
- The churches of Goa is dated back to 16th century are examples of Renaissance, early baroque, Mannueline & Gothic Architecture.
- Temples of Goa are distinct in architectural terms in teh sense that they have domes & red tiled sloping roof. The interiors are ornamented with carvings, wood painting, chandeliers & lamps.
- There are towns in Goa which have historical importance like Panaji, old Goa and Margao. They are classified as Heritage Towns.
- In all there are 8 museums & art Galleries in Goa.
- The Junngle beauty & glimpses of wild life can be seen in four wild life sanctuaries and one national park.
- Springs of Salcette, Tiswadi & Bicholim Taluka can worth viewing with few springs mentioned below with medicinal properties.
- Ambora Fountain in Raia Village
- Spring within Aguada Fort
- Springs at Batim
- Springs of Fonderem & Vellin Caidua
- The potentials of historical tourism can be explored through forts.
- Lake tourism may be developed in Mayem lake, Harvalem & Karmali lakes.
- The cultural tourism is also one of the important aspect specially the Carnival of Spring, the food festival at Miramar & Monsoon Festivals like Feast, Gokul Asthami & Ganesh Chathurthe.
- The tourism potentials in all the above mentioned place can be developed with the help GIS. The spots and their locales can be well over viewed through GIS AUDS may be created of all tourist spots & its surroundings.
The next job of the tourism master plan is to identify the new tourist areas by studying the terrain, accessibility and other physical features. The impact of Tourism has to be studied in economic terms, social vakues & environmental sensitivity. For measuring economic impacts the average duration of stay of tourist and the average expenditure done by them is tabulated and a total revenue generation is calculated. Further it is analyzed that how much money generated can create how many employment. A multiplier effect is also analyzed. The GIS technology finally helps in analysing that how the tourism sector is contirbuting in the economy of Goa. The laying of tourist infrastructure can deplete the forest cover the physical environment of coasts & beaches cn be degraded by increasing pressure of tourist like the plastic pollution in the beaches are common endangering the beach eco-system. GIS will help in identifying the endangered environmental areas and provide solution for effective management.
Developing Tourist Circuits
Generating Tourist Circuits by weighted overlay analysis of different tourist spots is being proposed in the Master Plan.
Conclusion
The Master Plan Tourism for Goa thus emphasis inventerisation of all existing & probable tourist spots, the infrastructural facilities existing at the tourist centers & a comparison with estimated demand at present & future and identification of gaps in current situations; the trend analysis & future projection of tourist influx and the impact of tourism on socio cultural & environmental setup and finally the generation of tourist Circuit. GIS plays a crucial role in measurement, mapping, monitoring and modelling of the entire plan.
Processess for Prepaing Spatial and Attribute