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Abstract:
In order to improve all aspects of tourism in any country, it is vital to utilize all available state-of-
the art computing and IT technologies and facilities. In this paper, we present our work in this
regard as applied to Jordan. Our objective is to build a Geographic Information System (GIS)
Model for tourism industries (services) from one side and for officials and conservationist of the
historic sites on the other side. This will encourage tourism by providing tourists with all the
needed services such as: maps, routes, restaurants, hospitals, web site with virtual reality models
of different monuments and sites. Officials concerned with tourism industries including the
private sector, will have an important role in improving and planning the future of their industries
using GIS capabilities. Moreover, GIS will enable us to have up-to-date information,
recommendation and orientation to tourists to guarantee their security in case of emergency
which is a great concern to them.
In our GIS creation we included tourism maps scale (1:50,00) and (1:10,000), Ikonos, and spot
satellite images to allow maximum information. The GIS covered all cities which have important
historical sites including: Amman, Jerash, Madaba, Aqaba and Petra. Existing and newly
gathered data were used to enrich our GIS system in order to offer all kind of services to both
planners and tourists. The created GIS system will enable the future usage of all modern location-
based services.
We present here and in depth study for accurate 3D modeling of each historic monument for
conservation and registration purposes which was done by our group with international
cooperation. Results will be included in the GIS system to enrich it and to allow inside visits to
the great ancient history of the sites through a web site.
2. Methodology
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the attribute data was collected from
governmental agencies and visits to create
the data from the field which demanded an
enormous job and still needs to be enriched.
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Figure3: Identifying the Palace Hotel
- Find Data: This is a function used to locate Figure 5: Hyperlink image of the
the position of such feature on the map in Culminated Street
different layers when needed; for example to
find data about Radisson Sas Hotel. - Query data by attribute when the features
could be selected using the Standard Query
- Hyperlink Data is a tool to obtain more Language (SQL), such as, querying about
information attached to features such as the location of five star hotels in Amman
photos or texts, like Hyperlink of Saint (see Fig. 6) or querying about the locations
George Church in Madaba (see Fig. 4) or the of the Highways that exit Amman to Jerash.
Culminated Street in Jerash (see Fig. 5). .
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Figure 9: Distance between Two Points.
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Statistical Analysis is a representation of the production according to needs, trip itinerary.
numerical data of the layers into charts form. Finally the creation of a web site to include
Mathematical functions may be applied to the entire database (SAK). We hope soon to
help in decision making such as ranking include in details visits to the sites. GIS
hotels according to cost. offers a great effective tool for tourism
services that can enhance the national
income from such important industry.
Moreover, it provides a good mechanism to
document, conserve and monitor historic
sites.
References
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Silk Road Symposium, Nara, Japan, Dec 10-
12, 2003.
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