GIS BASE TOURISM DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LANGKAWI ISLAND, KEDAH, MALAYSIA

Tarmiji Masron (), Badaruddin Mohamed and Azizan Marzuki
Additional contact information
Tarmiji Masron: School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Badaruddin Mohamed: School of Housing, Building & Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Azizan Marzuki: School of Housing, Building & Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, 2015, vol. 10, issue 2, 21-35

Abstract: Tourism is an activity that implies the geographical dimension for users (the tourists) providers and planners. Besides its spatial dimension, tourism involves aspects of social, economic and environmental implications. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is particularly developed for the management purpose as well as to study the spatial phenomena. More specifically, the GIS is employed for developing, storing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing the extensive amount of spatial and non-spatial data related to activities and resources. This paper is part of the Development of Tourism Decision Support System (TDSS) project of Sustainable Tourism Research Cluster (STRC) of Universiti Sains Malaysia. This paper focuses on a GIS-based spatial decision support system (SDSS) application that integrates GIS functions and SDSS designs with user friendly graphic user interfaces (GUI) in helping visitors of the Langkawi Island to choose and plan their activities more effectively, according to their personal preferences and constraints.

Keywords: GIS; Tourism Decision Suport System; Langkawi Island (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://um.ase.ro/no102/2.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rom:terumm:v:10:y:2015:i:2:p:21-35

Access Statistics for this article

Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management is currently edited by Colesca Sofia

More articles in Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management from Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Colesca Sofia ().