Web Gis For Tourism Development Of Bahir Dar Town And Its Surroundings Ethiopia

, rn rnAn efficient promotion of tourism, not only allows significant gain of foreign currencyrnbut also it has an effect in building the image of a country. The tourism industry inrnEthiopia is not gaining the expected foreign currency and also it is not promoting the realrnimage of the country as expected. One of the major problems for the development ofrntourism in the country is promotion for attracting people. The main objective of this studyrnis to develop a web based GIS utility that allows the tourists to have spatial and nonrnspatial tourism information about Bhair dar town anywhere in the internet. This studyrnintends to develop a prototype based on a three tier architecture using client/serverrnparadigm. Apache, Mapserver, PHP, and chameleon are the open source software that arernused for developing the portal. Google API also used to enhance the query capability ofrnthe tourists directly from the Google satellite image. The developed web based GISrnportal enables the tourists to get digital tourist map that contains information about thernmajor tourist spots, hotels, health centers, and transport destinations of the townrndepending on their needs in easy and user interface way anywhere on the internet.rnKey words: Tourism, Web GIS, Open source, Google API

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