Diverting the tourists: a spatial decision-support system for tourism planning on a developing island

Beedasy, Jaishree; Whyatt, J. Duncan

doi:10.1016/s0303-2434(99)85009-0

Cited by 60 publications

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“…GIS and MCE applications have been widely used for tourism (Aminu 2007;Beedasy and Whyatt 1999;Yianna and Poulicos 2002) although MCE has been proposed as a participatory planning tool (Higgs 2006;Bello-Pineda, Ponce-Hernández, and Liceaga-Correa 2006;Zhao and Lin 2002;Jakariya and Bhattacharya 2007;Kumari, Behera, and Tewari 2010;Bukenya 2012), in practice few of these studies consulted with stakeholders over tourism development.…”

Section: Multiple Criteria Evaluation and Ecotourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating consistency of stakeholder input into participatory GIS-based multiple criteria evaluation: a case study of ecotourism development in Kurdistan

Sarky

Wright

Edwards

2016

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Multiple Criteria Evaluation (MCE) is often used with GIS to identify suitable sites for multi-purpose development such as ecotourism. Typically, expert or stakeholder consultation is used to identify weights reflecting the relative importance of map layers representing different criteria. The objective of this study was to evaluate a new consultative approach to GIS-based MCE, using ecotourism development in Kurdistan, Iraq, as a case study. In an initial and follow-up consultation, stakeholders were asked not only to assess the relative importance of different map layers for ecotourism development, but also to identify specific sites suitable for ecotourism. Seventy-eight ecotourism destinations nominated by participants had significantly higher MCE scores than a set of 58 locations chosen without reference to stakeholders (t-test=21.16; p<0.001). The approach thus provides a straightforward means of assessing the consistency of stakeholder input into MCE and could be adapted for use in other site suitability assessments.

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Section: Multiple Criteria Evaluation and Ecotourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating consistency of stakeholder input into participatory GIS-based multiple criteria evaluation: a case study of ecotourism development in Kurdistan

Sarky

Wright

Edwards

2016

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…The multi-criteria evaluation methods applied for GIS-based land use suitability analysis are overlay Boolean operations, Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) and Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) methods (Heywood et al, 1995;Jankowski, 1995;Barredo, 1996;Beedasy and Whyatt, 1999;Malczewski, 2004;Romano and Cozzi, 2006;Romano et al, 2013a).…”

Section: Land Suitabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

Cozzi

Viccaro

Napoli

et al. 2015

Agricultural Water Management

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a b s t r a c tThe large-scale cultivation of energy crops irrigated with non-conventional water resources could reduce the negative impacts of fossil fuel use, while still saving potable supplies and decreasing pollution in surface water, particularly in water-deficient environments, like the Mediterranean region. Energy planning is a complex process involving multiple decision makers and criteria. Given the spatial nature of the problem, the research proposes a spatial analysis model to assess the agronomic and economic feasibility of vegetation filter systems in Basilicata region, southern Italy. The model chosen for land suitability analysis is the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) with the use of linguistic quantifiers. The suitability map obtained from the OWA model was used as input in the spatial analysis functions to quantify the productivity and irrigation needs of the species, the potential irrigable service area of the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), as well as the distances between them and SRF, which are all key elements in the economic evaluation. The results show that the distance is the main element that influences the feasibility: only 25 out of 163 WWTPs are cost-effective and can actually irrigate 864 ha of SRF. The research demonstrates that there is a great potential for bio-energy development in the region with significant economic advantages; in fact, there is a large number of sites with positive NPV up to 50,876.43 D/ha and payback period between 3 and 10 years. The implementation of vegetation filter systems could create chains with a high number of local actors (farmers, intermediaries, forest nurseries, etc.) and contribute to promoting territorial development and employment.

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“…Since the success of any tourism business in any destination is determined by tourism planning, tourism development, research and tourism marketing. Some of the key features of GIS that could benefit tourism planning include their ability to manipulate data and spatial attributes [17], and provide necessary value added information [18][19], the ease in allocating resources between what are often conflicting demands [20] their adaptability in requirements, needs and data changes over time [21] and their ability to identify patterns and spatial relationships [19]. Although the number of GIS applications in tourism and recreation management and planning are increasing, there are still many more potential opportunities [22] but tourism resource inventory is one of the very first and basic applications, such inventories may be further used for resource management, resource allocation and land use planning decisions [20].…”

Section: Use Of Gis Technology In Tourism Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another competitive advantage of GIS technology is its addictiveness to add or remove thematic layers, constraints and data, in order to make dynamic analysis. [21]. Furthermore Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be applied to re-manage the GIS resources and provide a dynamic, and reliable service system that could meet information and service requirements of different users over the internet instantly [24].…”

Section: Use Of Gis Technology In Tourism Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Geospatial Technology for the Promotion of Tourist Industry in Srinagar City

Shah¹,

Wani²

2015

IJUNESST

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Diverting the tourists: a spatial decision-support system for tourism planning on a developing island

Cited by 60 publications

References 7 publications

Evaluating consistency of stakeholder input into participatory GIS-based multiple criteria evaluation: a case study of ecotourism development in Kurdistan

Evaluating consistency of stakeholder input into participatory GIS-based multiple criteria evaluation: a case study of ecotourism development in Kurdistan

A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

Application of Geospatial Technology for the Promotion of Tourist Industry in Srinagar City

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