Progress In Tourism, Recreation & Hosp. Mgmt, Vol.3

This essential handbook explores some of the issues involved in the transfer of GIS technology and methodology into these environments showing how this process can be used to improve the quality of decision making particularly in the public sector and local and national Government. Much emphasis is placed on examining the development of integrated information systems in expanding the functionality of GIS by the integration of a range of software tools and in the integration of advanced spatial modeling and analysis techniques within policy-making processes.