Analysis of terrains suitable for tourism and recreation by using geographic information system (GIS)

Abstract

The use and utilization areas of geographic information system (GIS) increase every day due to both enabling easiness in storing, updating, grouping, analyzing, correlating, and mapping of data about evaluation factors in planning studies and having quite low error margin depending on the accuracy of data stored. In fact, GIS is also used both in visualization and in various analyses in planning tourism terrains. In this study, the effectiveness of GIS on holistic evaluation of natural and cultural resources in planning tourism terrains was analyzed. Natural and cultural resources in Kayseri Yahyalı were quantified by using ArcGIS 9.3 software from GIS software; data were analyzed and potential tourism and recreation terrains, level of suitability, and rate of coverage were determined. As a result of the analyses, it was determined that 11.847 ha area (6,53%) was quite suitable for such kind of activities, 103.010 ha (56,77%) was suitable, 39.278 ha (21,65%) was less suitable, and 27.314 ha area (15,05%) was not suitable. In the next stage, landscape properties which are suitable for tourism and recreation were evaluated and landscape types were classified in the sense of their tourist attraction. It was determined that the water resources and valley landscapes were the basic sources of the tourism and recreation activities of Yahyalı, and it was determined that the landscape of the forest and mountain was important for variety of the tourism and recreation activities of Yahyalı.

Relief Evaluation for the Purposes of Recreation and Tourism – Case Study Ravna Mountain and Pale Valley

“…Received scores, ie. the level of suitability of attributes are obtained on basis of examples used in works which treat such and similar issues (Table 3), [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [6], [1], etc. Attributes and ratings are adjusted to possibilities and conditions offered by studied area.…”

Design and Implementation of Multilayer GIS Framework in Natural Resources Management: Red Sea Area

“…Aklıbaşınd [18] presented the utilizations of geographic information systems (GIS) technique in the management of natural and mineral resources and shows with data evidence how they have grown rapidly. GIS is the primary method for large-scale spatiotemporal data analysis and is usually used as a medium for communicating landscape scale research results to all stakeholders.…”

Geotourism: definition, characteristics and international perspectives

“…They include a systems model approach which was applied to the Taining and Longhushan geoparks in China as well as to Zion National Park in the United States of America (Ren et al, 2013); geoheritage as the basis for assessing geotourism development in the Jeli District, Kelantan, Malaysia (Adriansyah et al, 2015); a geo-ecological information system (GEIS) approach developed in India (Kumar and Deshmukh, 2015); and a proposed geosite assessment model (GAM) applied in the Srem Loess Plateau, Serbia (Višnić et al, 2016). Assessment through the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been applied to the Kayseri Yahyali, Turkey (Akhbaşinda and Bulut, 2014) and to Rottnest Island, Australia (Rutherford et al, 2015). Assessment of specific geosites has been reviewed by (Kubalíková, 2013;Migoń and Pijet-Migoń, 2017), a new approach to geosite inventory has been tested in the Villuercas-Ibores-Jar Geopark, Extremadura, Spain (Fernández et al, 2014) and geotourism has been re-interpreted as an approach to study landscape-tourism interactions (Stoffelen and Vanneste, 2015).…”