{"id":3397,"date":"2019-01-06T16:03:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grindgis.com\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2019-03-10T21:29:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:29:26","slug":"applications-of-gis-in-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grindgis.com\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Applications of GIS in Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GIS applications in the field of tourism goes back several years. Tourists can now rely on maps and other GIS related material to find their way around the world. Below are some of the applications of GIS in tourism.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>1. Personality Atlas<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Assigning personality stereotypes to countries around the world based on a sample size of global population&#8217;s perspectives.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>2. Tourist Map<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Plotting out landmarks in tourist maps. GIS has also been instrumental in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maptive.com\/gis-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plotting out maps<\/a> for various locations across the globe. This way, tourists are able to find their way into various locations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>3. Sunrise and Sunset<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Finding the perfect sunrise and sunset during at any given location. Using GIS, tourists are able to locate the perfect sunrise and sunset and capture the best moments using this technology.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>4. Subway Map<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Simplifying maps for the reader to better understand such as the lines of a subway map in high contrasting colors.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>5. Linear Referencing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Using linear referencing along shorelines to track volumes of organic debris.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>6. Off-Beaten Tracks<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Finding the off-beaten track for backpackers and marking its position with 3 words.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: font-size: 16pt;\"><strong><br \/>\n7. Safe Travel<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Advising travelers where unsafe location are on a map.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>8. Tourism Dollars<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Tracking the exports of purchased goods and services using desire lines.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>9. Sustainable Tourism Planning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Identifying conflicting interests from tourism and solving issues by examining suitable locations for proposed developments.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>10. Hotel Search<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Searching geographically for five star hotels using a circle radius.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>11. Horizon Blockage<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Calculating the horizon blocking line in all directions from a given observation point with gvSIG&#8217;s Horizon Blockage.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>12. Travel Mode Detection<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Detecting travel mode (walk, car, bus, subway and commuter rail) from a multi-modal transportation network using GIS and GPS in New York City.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>13. Finding Islands<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Using satellite to find uninhabited islands around the world \u2013 Landsat found Landsat Island near the coast of Canada.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>14. Time Zones<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Representing time zones around the world. GIS can also be used to represent time zones across all areas in the world. Tourists can then use this information to know what time it is wherever they are going.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>15. Eco-Tourism Site Selection<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Gauging environmental impacts for sustainable eco-tourism sites. GIS can also help in gauging the impact of environmental occurrences.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>16. Virtual Travel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Seeing your destination before physically being there. Through virtual travel, tourists are also able to view their destination and see how it looks before actually getting to the destination.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>17. Geo-tagging<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Discover places with 360 panoramic camera views.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>18. Highway Planning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Constructing viewpoints with multiple layers like ecology, topography and cultural features for a three-dimensional visual highway.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>19. Virtual Arctic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Exploring the Arctic in Google Street View without getting out of your chair.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>20. 3D Synthetic Scene<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Overlaying synthetic scenes over real scene.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>21. Yellowstone<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Putting all the pieces together in a GIS database at Yellowstone National Park including its geologic past, geyser recharge and seismic activity.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>22. Trip Planning<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Adventuring around for your next road trip with pit stops and offbeat using suggested sites.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>23. Observer Points<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Calculating visibility through multiple observer points.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>24. Historic Street View<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: background-color:;\">Time-travelling in the past to see just how much a location has changed over time with historic street view.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIS applications in the field of tourism goes back several years. Tourists can now rely on maps and other GIS related material to find their way around the world. Below are some of the applications of GIS in tourism. 1. 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