DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED TOURISM MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

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Title page         -       -       -       -       -       -       -       -       i

Certification     -       -       -       -       -       -       -       ii

Dedication       -       -       -       -       -       -       -       -       iii

Acknowledgement            -       -       -       -       -       -       iv

Abstract   -       -       -       -       -       -       -       -       v

Table of contents     -       -       -       -       -       -       -       vi - viii

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Preliminaries   -       -       -       -       -       -       1 - 3

Theoretical background   -       -       -       -       3 - 4

Statement of problem      -       -       -       -       4

Objective of the study      -       -       -       -       4

Significance of the study  -       -       -       -       4 -5

Scope of the study   -       -       -       -       -       5

 Organization of research         -       -       -       5 - 6

CHAPTER TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Introduction             -       -       -       -       -       7

Definition of tourism        -       -       -       -       7 - 8

Etymology        -       -       -       -       -       -       8 - 9

World tourism statistic and ranking        -       -       10

World’s top 10 tourism destination -       10  - 11

International tourism expenditure   -       12 - 13

Emergence of leisure travel      -       -       -       13 - 15

The impact of tourism      -       -       -       -       15 - 16

Understanding tourism conflict       -       -       -       17

The role of planning         -       -       -       17 - 18

Elaboration of tourism impact         -       -       18

Economic -       -       -       19

Environmental -       -       -       20

Social and cultural -       -       20 - 21

Crowding and congestion        -       21

Services   -       -       -       -       22

Taxes       -       -       -       -       22

Community attitude -       -       22 - 23

The impact of multimedia geographical

 information system in tourism        -       -       -       23 - 25   

Multimedia element in GIS      -       -       25

The concept of travel geographical

information system -       -       -       26

The roles of GIS in tourism

 management           -               -       26 - 27

Conducting tourism information

 management   -       -       -       -       27

Being able to produce a comprehensive

thematic Map   -       -       -       -       28

Providing references for the tourism

development    -       -       -       -       28 - 29

Existing problems of GIS applied to tourism

management and the GIS application prospects -   29

Existing problems    -       -       -       -       29 - 31

Prospects of GIS applied to tourism

management    -               -       -   

1.1 The BACKGROUND OF STUDY

Geographic Information System (GIS) is the emerging science that puts together geography, computer science, mathematics, statistics, management, surveying and mapping science into one. On the basis of geospatial data, supported by computer hardware and software, it collects, inputs, manages, edits, queries, models and displays spatial data. By using space model analysis method, it timely offers a variety of spatial and dynamic information to set up the computer technology system in order to serve Geography research and decision-making. Due to its efficient data management, spatial analysis, multi-factor comprehensive analysis and dynamic monitoring capabilities, it becomes an effective management decision-making tool, widely used in land management, urban planning, disaster prevention and mitigation, real estate development, commercial and other areas.

It is generally composed of hardware and software systems. GIS hardware system consists of computer equipment and network with some external device structure, in which the computer is the host of GIS. The external devices include input devices, output devices and data storage and transmission equipment. Network computing architecture determines the network devices. GIS software system generally consists of 5 sub-system, that is data input, data pre-processing, data storage and management, spatial analysis, data output. GIS’s main features are: data collection and editing; data storage and management; data processing and transformation; spatial analysis and statistics; production and display of product.

1.2 Statement of Problem

The development of tourism not only needs its own information management and exchange, but also adapts to the economic development and information needs of the whole society. The GIS applied to the tourism management is the inevitable demand for tourism management and tourism development. The development of modern information technology constantly presents new challenges to tourism management. In this case, it is a very important problem that how to make full use of the GIS in the tourism management to make tourism management better adapt to the needs of Information development. It requires on-going in-depth discussion and study.

1.3 Aims/Objectives of the study

The following are the objectives of the study;

Conducting Tourism Information Management

Being Able to Produce a Comprehensive Thematic Map

Providing multimedia information about tourist sites

Providing References for the Tourism Development

1.4 Significance of the study

Tourism has a strong geographical attributes. Multimedia presentation of tourist information signifies improved conveying information by means of a well-aimed combination of different media like text, sound, picture, video and animation. And GIS itself are information systems offering services to geographic research and decision-making, which can play roles in tourism management. In particular, possessing the functions, such as data collection, storage, processing, spatial analysis and so on, GIS directly provides services for tourism management. When combining this with tourist information in the form of texts, photos and videos a comprehensive information system emerges, which offers the tourist optimum access to the region of his choice. This access is marked by high degree of interactivity, regarding the realization of Multimedia as well as internet solutions

1.5 Scope of the Study

This study covers the integration of multimedia and geographic information system in tourism management

1.6 Organization of Research

        This research work is organized into five chapters. Chapter one is concerned with the introduction of the research study and it presents the preliminaries, theoretical background, statement of the problem, aim and objectives of the study, significance of the study, scope of the study, organization of the research and definition of terms.

        Chapter two focuses on the literature review, the contributions of other scholars on the subject matter is discussed.

        Chapter three is concerned with the system analysis and design. It presents the research methodology used in the development of the system, it analyses the present system to identify the problems and provides information on the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed system. The system design is also presented in this chapter.

        Chapter four presents the system implementation and documentation, the choice of programming language, analysis of modules, choice of programming language and system requirements for implementation.

        Chapter five focuses on the summary, constraints of the study, conclusion and recommendations are provided in this chapter based on the study carried out