Use of Geospatial Techniques to Manage the Tourists and Administration: A Case Study of Mount Abu, Rajasthan.

Tourism is extremely acknowledged as a crucial supply of economic gain to any country. The success of any tourism business can be easily determined by its tourism planning, development and marketing. The best site selection for tourism development and the best way to facilitate the tourists is to exchange information using GIS tool and this help in economic development and information needs for the whole society. In this study GIS, being used as a tool for data mapping and analysis to serve as an efficient and effective tool for the tourists. GIS technology used to integrate various data sets both qualitative and quantitative in a single system. Similarly, the effective planning and information exchange also determine the success of the tourism industry. The main aim of this exploration is to locate the capability of geospatial procedures and to encourage the tourism and administration in the Mount Abu of Rajasthan. Geospatial innovation offers a scope of chances for the improvement of current tourism applications utilizing digital maps. The use of spatial and non-spatial database information is to facilitate in visualizing, analyzing and to querying through digital maps to the present and upcoming tourists. The GIS Data set has been created by extensive survey and analysis. On the other hand, Global Position System (GPS) is used to collect the spatial information. The base map used for this study is IRS CARTOSAT 1 Satellite data. Thematic layers have been used for providing basic tourist facilities such as hotel, home stay, guest house, transportation, food hubs, heritage sites, bank, ATM, post office, police help, health facilities and all the tourist attraction sites etc., has been developed. Present study deals with how to facilitate the tourists in Mount Abu as well as to develop a GIS based information system for the administrators of government officials or planners, which will also help in management, and the department of tourism for enhancement and beautification of site.