GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR TOURISM MANAGEMENT IN AURANGABAD CITY- A REVIEW

Pallavi U.Pandagale, Manisha R.Mundhe, Amin Pathan

Abstract: Aurangabad is a historic city located in the heart of Maharashtra. It is rapidly becoming a hot spot for tourist from around the world because of its exotic locations and facilities provide by the government. This paper describes the development of the tourism management and planning by the integration with the Geographic information system (GIS). The tool of the tourist industry is more and more emerging as the internet. It is a present the perfect platform that brings to the product and service to the client. However world-wide web is fast becoming useful tool for the tourism industry and it presents a platform that brings products and services to the user. In generally tourist wants to find objects of tourism and amenities with reference to their geographic position and surroundings. In most case, it is not satisfying to find a tourist place without a reference to historical place sight or event location located nearby. In the present work, an effort has been gained to build up a tourism management model using the Google earth/Google Map and KML file techniques. The study presents a paper start from the client needs to present the tourist object in geospatial context on the interactive map supports planning the tourism and focusing on the analysis decision making and management using Google earth or Google map and KML file technique and finally presenting the result on the internet.

Keywords: Geographic information systems (GIS), Web based tourism application, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), KML

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305133