scholarly journals Water as a Tourist Resource in Extremadura: Assessment of Its Attraction Capacity and Approximation to the Tourist Profile

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1659 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín ◽  
Marcelino Sánchez-Rivero ◽  
Juan-Ignacio Rengifo-Gallego
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Swimming Pools ◽  
Northern Area ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
System A ◽  
Tourist Resource

In inland areas water is an important resource for attracting tourists as is the case in Extremadura. For this reason this research aims to determine its attraction capacity for travelers from other parts of Spain. In 2017, 13,848 surveys were carried out in the tourist offices of the region, from which 3403 were selected from those practicing tourism related to water. This has allowed us to find out the type of tourist who visits the area and his/her origin. By means of a geographical information system, a network analysis was applied to determine the attraction capacity of certain infrastructures. This result confirms that the most frequently visited areas coincide with the presence of natural swimming pools, although reservoirs do not act as centers of attraction for tourists although they do for visitors. At the same time, it was found that tourists practicing activities related to water resources come from neighboring areas but their attraction capacity extends to distant areas which coincide with areas that were the destination for regional emigration. Moreover, we advocate the need for establishing tourist policies involving greater tourist exploitation of reservoirs and the deseasonalization of tourism in the northern area, where most areas prepared for bathing are to be found.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR COMPUTATION OF BASIN TOPOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS IN GIS

2016 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W1 ◽  
pp. 165-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Gökgöz ◽  
Y. Yayla ◽  
M. B. Yaman ◽  
H. Güvenç ◽  
S. Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Current Water ◽  
Basin Boundaries ◽  
Topographic Parameters

Although water use has been increasing day by day depending on fast population increase, urbanization and industrialization in the world, potential of usable water resources remains stable. On the other side, expansion of agricultural activities, industrialization, urbanization, global warming and climate change create a big pressure on current water resources. Therefore, management of water resources is one of the most significant problems of today that is required to be solved and ‘’Integrated Basin Management’’ has gained importance in the world in terms of decreasing environmental problems by more efficiently using current water resources. In order to achieve integrated basin management, it is needed to determine basin boundaries with sufficient accuracy and precision and encode them systematically. In various analyses to be done on the basis of basin, topographic parameters are also needed such as shape factor, bifurcation ratio, drainage frequency, drainage density, length of the main flow path, harmonic slope, average slope, time of concentration, hypsometric curve and maximum elevation difference. Nowadays, basin boundaries are obtained with digital elevation models in geographical information systems. However, tools developed for topographic parameters are not available. In this study, programs were written in Python programming language for afore-mentioned topographic parameters and each turned into a geographical information system tool. Therefore, a significant contribution has been made to the subject by completing the deficiency in the geographical information system devoted to the topographic parameters that are needed in almost every analyses concerning to the hydrology.

scholarly journals Characterization of the Tourist Demand of the Villuercas–Ibores–Jara Geopark: A Destination with the Capacity to Attract Tourists and Visitors

Geosciences ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 335 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Manuel Sánchez-Martín ◽  
Juan-Ignacio Rengifo-Gallego ◽  
Luz-María Martín-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Geographical Information System ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Generic Framework ◽  
Tourist Resource ◽  
Tourist Demand

Geological heritage has become a tourist resource with huge potential in certain areas, which has given rise to a tourism category known as geotourism which has entered the generic framework of rural tourism. The main elements around which geotourism revolves are geoparks and geosites. However, despite the recognized role which is played by the latter as a tourist resource, there is a widespread lack of knowledge of the characteristics of the demand. This study aims to characterize the demand of the Villuercas–Jara–Ibores geopark in Spain based on information provided by surveys which has subsequently been processed by means of a Geographical Information System. The results obtained allow the differentiation of various types of profile of those providing the demand according to whether we consider visitors to the geopark as a whole or whether we separate tourists (visitors who spend the night in the geopark) from visitors (visitors who do not stay there). Among our main conclusions it should be emphasized that it is only possible to establish a difference between tourists and visitors if the main motivations are taken into account. It should also be stressed that the geopark operates as an internal tourist destination for those spending the night in other regions of Extremadura.

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