Geographia Technica, No. 1/2008, pp. 40 - 45

TOURIST TRAILS ANALYSIS AT ST. ANA LAKE REGION USING G.I.S METHODOLOGY

Zs. Magyari-Sáska , St. Dombay

ABSTRACT - Tourist trails analysis at St. Ana Lake region using G.I.S methodology. Most of the tourist routes in Romania were marked in the first decades of the past century. Now days these routes are remarked, and represents an important segment of touristic offer. Are research are concentrated on verifying some of the routes characteristics such as length, time. For this we developed a GIS system, which calculates these values, based on region DEM and tourist routes positions. The developed system has a friendly interface developed in Borland Delphi and a powerful GIS background using IDRISI modules. The results obtained from the system is quite surprising, values of the walk time differs very much in some cases from those specified in route descriptions. After verifying the base data and calculation methods we concluded, that historical route description holds some errors and our analysis system can be a valuable tool in tourist route analysis.

Keywords: tourist trails, Sf. Ana lake, routes, timings, GIS

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