Tourist maps present spatial information by using graphical symbols such as roads, rivers, and settlements, making it possible for tourists to locate significant objects. They are used at different stages of a trip, leading tourists to the main sights/sites of an area visited. Depending on the degree of touristic exploration, maps are designed on different scales with appropriate details. The most detailed presentations of geographical space are found in hiking maps, which provide precise topographic information. Maps with such contents are also created for cyclists, though on a smaller scale. Tourists traveling by car are the intended audience of road maps with general reference contents, drawn up on even smaller scales for regions and countries.
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Regarding methods of publication, tourists use traditional hard copies and computerized digital maps. The former can be included in guidebooks as foldable cartographic illustrations. The latter relates to the...
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Medyńska-Gulij, B. (2023). Map – Tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_449-3
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