"Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity."
The use of GIS as a tool for tourism research, planning, and management.
Geographic coordinates: A system of coordinates that enables the identification of the precise location of a point on the Earth's surface.
Spatial data: Data that describes the characteristics or attributes of a location, such as topography, land use, demographics or climate.
Cartography: The science of making maps, including the principles of projection, scale, and representation.
GIS software: Computer programs that enable the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic data.
Data formats and structures: The various formats and structures in which spatial data are stored and represented electronically.
Geodatabases: Databases that are optimized for storing geographic data and that enable the integration of multiple data sources.
Spatial analysis: The process of examining geographic data to identify patterns, relationships, and trends.
Remote sensing: The use of satellite, aerial or other types of sensors to collect data about the Earth's surface.
GPS: Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time information.
Metadata: Data that describes other data, providing information about its origin, accuracy, and other properties.
Desktop GIS: A desktop GIS is a software application that is installed on a computer and is used to create, edit, and analyze geospatial data.
Web GIS: Web GIS is a system of GIS that is designed to work over the internet. Web GIS makes it easier to share data, maps, and other resources with users across the globe in real time.
Mobile GIS: Mobile GIS is a system of GIS that is designed to work on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Mobile GIS can be used for fieldwork, data collection, and mapping tasks.
Cloud GIS: Cloud GIS is a system of GIS that is accessed over the internet through cloud-based services. Cloud GIS allows users to access GIS resources from anywhere and at any time.
3D GIS: A 3D GIS allows users to visualize geospatial data in three dimensions. 3D GIS is particularly useful in tourism geography applications, such as virtual tourism, planning, and simulation.
Geostatistics: Geostatistics use statistical methods to analyze and model spatial data. It is often used in tourism geography to understand patterns of visitor behavior and the spatial distribution of tourism resources.
Spatial decision-making: Spatial decision-making uses GIS to support decision-making processes related to tourism geography. It helps to identify the best locations for tourism development, plan infrastructure and identify areas that require conservation.
"Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism."
"Geography is fundamental to the study of tourism because tourism is geographical in nature."
"Physical geography provides the essential background, against which tourism places are created and environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."
"The approaches to study will differ according to the varying concerns."
"Much tourism management literature remains quantitative in methodology and considers tourism as consisting of the places of tourist origin (or tourist generating areas), tourist destinations (or places of tourism supply) and the relationship (connections) between origin and destination places."
"The Tourist by Dean MacCannell and The Tourist Gaze by John Urry are classics in this field."
"Cultural geography takes more theoretically diverse approaches to tourism, including a sociology of tourism, which extends beyond tourism as an isolated, exceptional activity."
"Sociology of tourism considers how travel fits into everyday lives and how tourism is not only a consumptive activity of places but also produces the sense of place at a destination."
"Tourism consists of the places of tourist origin, tourist destinations, and the relationships between them."
"The environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."
"It is an activity in which both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed through the relationships that are created among places, landscapes, and people."
"The relationship between origin and destination places includes transportation routes."
"Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests, including the geographies of tourism and leisure economies."
"The environmental impact of tourism is a key concern in tourism geography."
"Tourism geography studies tourism as an industry and as a social and cultural activity."
"Both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed through the relationships that are created among places, landscapes, and people."
"Tourism involves movement and activities between places and it is an activity in which both place characteristics and personal self-identities are formed."
"Tourism is not only a consumptive activity of places but also produces the sense of place at a destination."
"Environmental impacts and concerns are major issues that must be considered in managing the development of tourism places."