Managing Tourism Services of East Black Sea Region of Turkey with Maps A.C. AYDINOGLU, T. YOMRALIOGLU Oral session 3: GIS for resources and data management August 7th, 17:00 18:30 (Room: Galaxy 1) KTU GISLab, Trabzon-TurkeyTurkey XXIII. International Cartographic Conference ICC 2007 August 04-10 10, 2007, Moscow, Russia Overview The importance of Tourism industry Tourism Management Information Systems (TMIS)? User and Decision Maker oriented Information Products Conclusions 01/1818 Arif Cagdas AYDINOGLU 1
Introduction According to United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), tourism is the biggest industry of the world. Tourism economy has an important place in Turkish Economy and has about 5% of General Domestic National Product. It brings 10 billion USA Dollars to the economy and provide nearly 1,5 million employee. Tourism is an industry based on acquiring data and using the data effectively. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), enables to get, share, and distribute the data in tourism industry. Presenting tourism data with GIS / maps makes the data meaningful for both users and managers. 02/18 Arif Cagdas AYDINOGLU Tourism Management Information Systems (TMIS) 03/18 2
STUDY AREA The area covers 6 provinces, totally to 32269 sq km. Artvin Bayburt Giresun Rize Gumushane Trabzon DATABASE DESIGN Facilities Tourism Datasets TR Tourism TUHI» Hotels 4S, 5S,» Tourism Centers Recreation»Mountaineering»Diving»Canoeing»Rock Climbing»Skiing»Rowing REKR»Rafting»Windsurfing»Trekking, etc. Historical TARH» Mosque» Fountain» Bath» Fortress»Thermal Spring» Church» Bridge» Monastery» Museum» Chapel, etc. Province SITA DOGL N3IL Natural / Protected Areas» Cave» Park» Picnic Area» Waterfall»Plateau»Other; River, Lake, Island details, etc. Base Datasets IB County ILCE Administrative Units Admin.Unit Centers IBME Road Sea Elevation YOLH DENZ YUKS UL Transportation Railway TREN HI Hidrography Lake River GOLA TO Topography Orto-Imagery or TIN SAYM NEHR 3
DATA COLLECTION Base datasets prepared by KTU GISLab and the General Command of Mapping of Turkey. Surface was produced on from elevation data and then covered by orto-imagery. Administrative completed from governmental sources. Historic and Nature entities was collected from web sites of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, provinces governerships and from some catalougues. Historic data- 69 records Nature data - 50 records Information about recreation entity group was collected from recreational and tourism web sites and sport maps. Recreation data- 184 records TOURISM MAP PRODUCTION PROCESS Real World Geographic Coğrafi Model Database Design Conceptual Logical Physical Cartographic Design Generalization + Representation Cartographic Model Map Production Technologies Internet Mapping Technologies Tourism Maps 4
Case Study: User Oriented Tourism Products Regional and Provincial Tourism Maps 15/1818 Case Study: User Oriented Tourism Products 15/1818 5
Case Study : Decision Maker Oriented Products Site selection for a tourism center 3 1 2 16/1818 As a result of spatial analysis process, 3 areas are chosen the most suitable areas for tourism investment. 3 CONCLUSIONS Public It is aimed to support TSM for decision makers and the users from only a TMIS infrastructure. From updating database, maps and documents were produced with improved capabilities of access to knowledge, queries and spatial analysis. It enables both decision makers and users to reach knowledge, maps and documentations from the database for their needs. Designing a TMIS for East Black Sea Region of Turkey is essential component for decision makers to determine regional tourism development strategies and relevant decisions. It is useful to carry tourism oriented resolutions for decision makers and gained time and finance. Various products such as maps, guides, web sites can be produced with TMIS model of East Black Sea region of Turkey. Users can reach territorial tourism information with produced tourism maps like wall paper, folded maps, and tourism guide at regional and provincial level. Users can generate various characteristic and scale maps as a rock climbing map, trekking and hiking area map, mountain bike map etc. for their needs and can print it. 18/18 It is easily and quickly to access information for users. 6
Greetings from Trabzon Thanks for your listening www.gislab.ktu.edu.tr Arif Cagdas AYDINOGLU, Ress. Ass. Karadeniz Technical University Dept. Of Geodesy and Photog. Engineering GISLab 61080 TRABZON e-mail: arifcagdas@ktu.edu.tr 7