SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT

FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

MASTER OF ENGINEERING (TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING)
Affiliated with

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Graduate Report Presentation on

GIS Application in Tourism Development

ME – TCP, Year – I, Semester – II
Under the subject of
TOURISM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
(Subject Code : 3724807)

Prepared by :
Guided by :
KETAN H. JADAV Prof.(Dr.) Jigar K. Sevalia
Prof. Zarana H. Gandhi
Enrollment No: Faculty & Head Prof. Palak S. Shah
180420748005 Faculty of Civil Engineering,
SCET
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Content
• Introduction
• GIS
– Component of GIS
– Types of GIS data
• GIS in tourism planning
– Creation of spatial database
– Attribute data creation and multimedia development
• Applications of GIS in tourism
• Conclusion
• References

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Introduction

• Tourism is one of the biggest and fastest growing

Industries in the world. It helps to improve the standard of
living of the local people and also helps to promote local
arts and crafts. Tourism plays a key role in socio-
economic progress through creation of jobs, enterprises,
infrastructure and revenue earning.
• According to the Economic Survey 2011-2012, the sector
has provided 6-7 percent of the world’s total jobs.

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Meaning of Tourism

• The term tourism was first used in 13th century.

• It means the movement of people from one place to another
place and ultimately returns to original place in specific
period.
• In 1976, Tourism society of England has defined it as
“Tourism is the temporary, short-term movement of people to
destination outside the places where they normally live and
work and their activities during the stay at each destination.

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Meaning of Tourist

• The League of Nation regarded the following people as

tourist:
(a) Persons travelling for entertainment, pleasure, personal
reasons for health.
(b) Persons travelling to meetings or in a representative
capacity of any kind of activity, these are scientific,
administrative, religions and sports etc.
(c) Persons travelling for business purposes.
(d) Persons arriving in the course of sea cruise, even when
they stay for less than 24 hours.

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Basic Components of Tourism
1) Tourism attraction: Tourism basically depends on
geographical, historical and cultural factors.
2) Accommodation: The development of tourism depends on
quality of accommodation. WTO has suggested two types of
accommodation.
(a) Hotels and equivalent accommodation system- (hotel, motels,
boarding house and Inns).
(b) Alternative accommodation system- (rental rooms,
apartments, house and camping tents.)
3) Transportation : It must be speedy, safety, regular and flexible.
4) Water and Electricity : The development of tourism is also
depended upon drinking water and electricity. Everywhere
water and electricity facility are available, but it must be
sufficient and regular.

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GIS

• GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing,

manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced
information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.
• A GIS is an organized collection of computer hardware,
software, geographic data, and personnel to efficiently capture,
store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of
geographically referenced information.

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GIS Capabilities

• Location: What is at a particular location...? Where is it….?

• Condition: identify a location where certain conditions exist..?
• Trends: What has changed since...?
• Patterns: What things are related..?

Component of GIS
• Hardware
• Software
• Data
• People

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Types of GIS Data

• Raster Data

• Vector Data

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GIS IN TOURISM PLANNING

• In the tourism industry, GIS is used to provide: ƒ

– A digital map base for printed maps ƒ
– Digital files for Internet mapping ƒ
– Digital files for mobile mapping ƒ
– Attractions map ƒ
• GIS operates on two data elements: spatial and attribute data.
Spatial or geographical data refers to a known location on the
Earth’s surface.

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 • The spatial database included the
Creation of following:
Spatial Database – Acquisition of graphical maps
covering the Region; ƒ
– Converting the paper maps into
digital maps by digitizing; ƒ
– Creation of topology to establish
relationships between the map
features; ƒ
– Transformation into real world
coordinates.

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Attribute data
• The various tourism facilities collected from different
sources can be linked to their respective spatial features.
– Compilation and addition of text information to feature
locations in tables
– Development and editing of pictures and images to
text labels ƒ
– Hot linking of images to their respective feature
locations ƒ
– Audio narrations on some selected features recorded
digitally were also linked to their respective feature
locations.

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Applications of GIS in Tourism

• Tourist Map
• Sunrise and Sunset
• Subway Map
• Hotel Search
• Time Zones
• Eco-Tourism Site
• Virtual Travel
• Geo-tagging
• Historic Street View

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Conclusion
• GIS has been successfully used in tourism for collecting,
analyzing, modeling and visual presentation of tourist
data. GIS is also used for bring the dereference data of
geographic location into digital maps.
• The created GIS database will support the tourism
activity. This database not only useful for location
identification, but also useful for planning and
development activity in tourism. The prepared digital map
can be updatable and editable, so that in future updating
of any information is possible. The spatial database can
be used for spatial analysis also like proximity study for
facility provision.

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References

• Verka JOVANOVIĆ, July (2007), THE APPLICATION OF

GIS AND ITS COMPONENTS IN TOURISM, Yugoslav
Journal of Operations Research Vol 18 (2008), Number 2, 261-
272.

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