Abstract
The internet is more and more emerging as a handy tool of traveling for the tourist industry. It presents a perfect platform that brings products and services to the customer. However, web based tourist information system provides not only on-line brochures, but provides both value and service. Information technology is having a big effect on all sectors of tourism. Tourists have problems to find what they are looking for, especially in reference to the geographic position of the object and its surroundings. In most cases, it is not satisfying to find a nice hotel without a reference to restaurants, sights or event locations located nearby. The study presented in this paper starts from the user needs, to present the tourism object in geographic context on interactive tourist maps supports planning for tourism, focusing on the analysis, decisions making and management using GIS technique and presenting the results on the internet.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives |
| Volume | 35 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Event | 20th ISPRS Congress on Youth Forum - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 12 Jul 2004 → 23 Jul 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2004 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Data Design
- GIS
- Integration
- Internet
- User
- Web-based