Abstract
Tourism in developing countries are some means of solving their economic problems and improving live standards of people and creates job opportunity for the host people in getting additional income and improve the developments of the country. The result of tourism in terms of environmental, cultural, economic and social aspects has a greater effect for Ethiopia. Gondar, the center of Ethiopian art and culture, is famous in its many Imperial castles and the design and decoration of its churches. This land of castles and churches was founded by Emperor Fasiladas in 1930s and served as tourist attraction sites all over the world. The main challenge to attract international tourists in the study area is Scarce and insufficient promotion of the tourist attraction sites, Lack of broad information based on the internet about tourism information, and lack of organized information about tourism facilities & destinations. This study tries to identify tourist attraction elements of Gondor town and its surrounding area & to identify non spatial data’s essential for touristic activities to develop & propose a web based GIS portal for the improvement of tourism activity in the town. The main target of developing a web based GIS interactive map is to promote and improve tourism industry of the area. It has been produced using free and open source software’s for fast processing, displaying, sharing, and distribution of tourism information using world wide web. For the web services PHP, HTML script language and QGIS2leaflet plugins are used in the development of web GIS portal.
Highlights
Web Geographic Information System (GIS) is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web by combining both the advantage of GIS and the internet [1]
For the web services PHP, HTML script language and QGIS2leaflet plugins are used in the development of web GIS portal
Gondor town is located between latitude and longitude of 12 ̊26'00"N to 12 ̊42'00"N and 37 ̊20'00"E to 37 ̊32'00"E respectively and it covers an area of 40.27 square kilometers with an elevation of around 2133 meters above sea level
Summary
Web GIS is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web by combining both the advantage of GIS and the internet [1]. Web-based GIS, an extension of Geographic Information System (GIS), consists of four major system components which include client for sending request through web browser, web server with application server for responding to the request, map server and data server [4]. Different software and technologies are used to develop in web mapping using commercial, open source and public software [10]. Ethiopia is a land of origin and friendly people [1] who are conscious of its historical, cultural and natural heritages [2] It is a land of contrasts and surprises, of remote and wild places, home to cultured people who are descended from some of the world’s oldest civilizations [3]. The Fasiladas castles has been declared as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1979 [6]
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