This paper aims to industry a tool for use in
decision support tourism, based on GIS applications, so
that it explains the sites and tourist services, tourism
statistics, and other factors that could affect the
development of tourism, with the integration of
applications with a variety of assistive technologies such as
forms a three-dimensional, and virtual reality, which make
scalable applications, that provides a centralized store and
retrieve all the tourist data, prepare geographic database,
tourist sites in Al-Baha City - Saudi Arabia. Tourism is
probably the only economic sector which provides concrete
and quantitative growing in TRADING opportunities.
Therefore, this paper gives discussion on an initiative for
the development and the implementation of Geographic
INFORMATION SYSTEMS in the tourism industry for an
important region of Saudi Arabia.
Mohmed Sirelkhtem Adrees : Phd in Information System ,
3 years’ experience , ALBaha university , information System
Department .
Majzoob Kamal Aldein Omer : PhD in Information
Technology , 4 years’ experience , Assistant Professor ALBaha
University , Head of Computer Science Department, Sudan.
Assistant Professor (IT) Faculty of Computer Science and
Information Technology, Al Neelain University, KSA
Osama E. Sheta : PhD (Irkutsk State Technical University,
Irkutsk, Russia). Assistant Professor (IS) Faculty of Science,
Zagazig University, Egypt. Assistant Professor (IS) Faculty of
Science, Al Baha University, KSA
GIS Techniques
Municipality of ALBaha
Destination Management
Tourism
ICT Diffusion Strategy
ARCGIS
The experiences gained over the years spent on the
diffusion of GIS s in tourism destinations, offer a
number of insights as related to the arguments of this
paper, in particular on the main barriers towards the
utilization and diffusion of GIS. There are several uses
of geographical information system, according to the
multiplicity of applied fields used in the management
and development of archaeological and tourist locations,
and these uses depends on the differing views about the
identification and classification of applied goals. GIS
can do many of the tasks in the field of archaeological
sites management, through the use of Multi Map of
picture and sound as well as the possibility of the system
in a different statistical analysis and analysis of road
networks.
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