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Geographic Information System (GIS)

Making Sense of Geospatial Data

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Applied Data Science in Tourism

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A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a theoretical framework and software for gathering, storing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing spatially distributed data. The GIS approach is especially beneficial when the analysis uses spatial data collected from different sources, requires understanding of a spatial relationship between the data points (distance, time to travel, etc.), deals with spatial patterns (e.g., hot spot analysis), extensively involves mapping, and other similar applications. This chapter thus provides a short introduction to geospatial data, typical GIS problems, and software applications.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States

    Andrei P. Kirilenko

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  1. Innovation & Management in Tourism, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Urstein (Puch), Salzburg, Austria

    Roman Egger

Further Readings and Other Sources

Further Readings and Other Sources

1.1 Books

  • Bearman, N. (2020). GIS: Research methods. Bloomsbury Publishing A simple non-technical introduction to GIS for social scientists.

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  • Lovelace, R., Nowosad, J., & Muenchow, J. (2019). Geocomputation with R. CRC Press. https://geocompr.robinlovelace.net – free e-book suitable for those who already know R and want to expand their expertise with GIS methods.

  • Margai, F., & Oyana, T. J. (2015). Spatial analysis: Statistics, visualization, and computation methods: An overview of spatial analysis methods. CRC Press.

  • Peterson, G. N. (2020). GIS cartography: A guide to effective map design. CRC Press.

1.2 Websites

1.3 Tourism Applications

  • Jovanović, V., & NjeguÅ¡, A. (2008). The application of GIS and its components in tourism. Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, 18(2), 261–272 An introduction to GIS application in tourism.

  • Wei, W. (2012). Research on the application of geographic information system in tourism management. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 12, 1104–1109 An essay on GIS applications in tourism.

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Kirilenko, A.P. (2022). Geographic Information System (GIS). In: Egger, R. (eds) Applied Data Science in Tourism. Tourism on the Verge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88389-8_24

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