Recent Development in Geospatial Platform and its significance in Tourism Planning

ABSTRACT

In recent years it has been observed that there is a significant relationship between Geospatial Platform and Tourism Planning especially after the pandemic. Whenever any country's economy has had any significant impact, tourism has always been the first to get affected as people start cutting their travel budgets first. Tourism has a fairly direct role to play when it comes to COVID-19, which has spread extensively across most parts of our country with a large number of tourists. The pandemic COVID-19 has heavily hit the tourism economy of our country. Proper scientific planning is required for tourism that can bring the industry into right position. Recent Development in Geospatial Platform and its significance in Tourism Planning signifies that Geo-portal has a huge potential in the field of Tourism management. The present study is conducted into two parts by using primary and secondary data. In the first part, researchers have conducted a survey among 96 respondents of the Delhi and NCR region, to understand their opinion related to the information-seeking process during pretrip planning stage in context to geoportal use. The analysis of this is done with the help of SPSS indicated that if both COVID and destination related information can be gathered together through a single website will be a great help to plan the future trip. After which the second part of the study has been conducted to analyze the potential of web-based geo-portal in tourism taking Sikkim as sample. The study discusses the basic architecture and techniques of providing accurate travel-related information in a single window that helps visitors in their decision-making process. The final section of this chapter suggests the strategic implementation of a geoportal for effective tourism planning and management by creating a geoportal with ArcGIS 10.0 for Sikkim, India. © 2021 IEEE.