期刊名称：GI_FORUM - Journal for Geographic Information Science
电子版ISSN：2308-1708
出版年度：2013
页码：224-228
DOI：10.1553/giscience2013s224
出版社：ÖAW Verlag, Wien
摘要：This paper presents a way of designing and populating a spatial database for tourism researchin the Sultanate of Oman. The recent rapid development of tourism in the Sultanateof Oman has created a strong need for research in this field to which GIS can contributethrough analysis, modelling and forecasting (MCADAM 1999).Tourism is a multidisciplinary field for which a database allows integration of quantitativeand qualitative data. Here the database is populated from data sources that are freelyavailable on the internet and provide a good quality of geodata for the Sultanate of Oman.A key aspect of this paper presents a spatial model of a Tourism Product. This model isexplained, implemented and exemplified for Tourism Products in south Oman.An online metadatabase helps to document all data and related sources and provides aninterface for communicating and sharing various kinds of data within the research projectteam. With the results from this pilot project tourism-related questions can be answeredusing GIS and structures of tourism in the Sultanate of Oman can further be analysed andvisualized in an ongoing research project.
