Web GIS for Tourism Development of Bahir Dar town and Its Surroundings, Ethiopia
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa Universty
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An efficient promotion of tourism, not only allows significant gain of foreign currency
but also it has an effect in building the image of a country. The tourism industry in
Ethiopia is not gaining the expected foreign currency and also it is not promoting the real
image of the country as expected. One of the major problems for the development of
tourism in the country is promotion for attracting people. The main objective of this study
is to develop a web based GIS utility that allows the tourists to have spatial and non
spatial tourism information about Bhair dar town anywhere in the internet. This study
intends to develop a prototype based on a three tier architecture using client/server
paradigm. Apache, Mapserver, PHP, and chameleon are the open source software that are
used for developing the portal. Google API also used to enhance the query capability of
the tourists directly from the Google satellite image. The developed web based GIS
portal enables the tourists to get digital tourist map that contains information about the
major tourist spots, hotels, health centers, and transport destinations of the town
depending on their needs in easy and user interface way anywhere on the internet.
Key words: Tourism, Web GIS, Open source, Google API
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Tourism, Web GIS, Open source, Google API