Web-based Geographical Information System (GIS) for tourism in Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

The Tourism industry in Nigeria is a growing one and already governments are underway to support the effective management and promotion of the industry. Several attempts to enhance this development have suffered some drawbacks due to inadequate access to information of tourism facilities, destinations and services. This paper emanates from a project that was carried out at the Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. It discuses how a Web-based Geographical Information System (GIS) is used for the rendering and analysis of tourism information for the efficient management and promotion of tourism. A typical model of a Web-Enabled GIS for tourism was implemented using the Oyo State, (Nigeria) tourism as a case study. © 2007 Asian Network for Scientific Information.