GIS on tourism planning: preventing the impacts caused by the developing touris...

• Author(s): Ramos, Célia M. Q. ; Gomes, Mário Rui Fonseca dos Santos
• Date: 1998
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1071
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Database Management Systems; Decision Support Systems; Geographical Information Systems; Tourism planning; Information systems implementation; Environmental impacts of tourism
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The environment is one of the greatest concerns of humankind. Nowadays, the activities which improve or destroy it must be assessed and controlled by efficient means which should permit the control of environmental impact caused by the development of these activities. This document presents an information system implementation, as a Decision Support system, allowing the Decision Maker to evaluate, foresee and control the future environmental impact of Tourism through consultation, the management and the presentation of decision schemes based on defined measures of a regional tourism planning.