Meng-Lung Lin and Chien-Min Chu and Chung-Hung Tsai and Chih-Cheng Chen and Chen-Yuan Chen
Geovisualization of Tourist Activity Travel Patterns Using 3D GIS An Empirical Study of Tamsui, Taiwan
394 - 398
2009
3
12
International Journal of Civil and Architectural Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/733
https://publications.waset.org/vol/36
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
The study of tourist activities and the mapping of their routes in space and time has become an important issue in tourism management. Here we represent spacetime paths for the tourism industry by visualizing individual tourist activities and the paths followed using a 3D Geographic Information System (GIS). Considerable attention has been devoted to the measurement of accessibility to shopping, eating, walking and other services at the tourist destination. I turns out that GIS is a useful tool for studying the spatial behaviors of tourists in the area. The value of GIS is especially advantageous for spacetime potential path area measures, especially for the accurate visualization of possible paths through existing city road networks. This study seeks to apply spacetime concepts with a detailed street network map obtained from Google Maps to measure tourist paths both spatially and temporally. These paths are further determined based on data obtained from map questionnaires regarding the trip activities of 40 individuals. The analysis of the data makes it possible to determining the locations of the more popular paths. The results can be visualized using 3D GIS to show the areas and potential activity opportunities accessible to tourists during their travel time.
Open Science Index 36, 2009