Sustainable Tourism Infrastructure Planning

A GIS-Supported Approach

Bibliographic Data

ID5942606
AuthorsBas Boers, Stuart Cottrell (0000-0001-6912-9476, Colorado State University)
Year2007
Volume9
Issue1
Pages1-21
Publication date2007-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourism Geographies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616680601092824
OpenAlexW2089618702
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited28

This paper presents a conceptual geographical information systems (GIS)-supported sustainable tourism infrastructure planning (STIP) framework including attraction, service and transportation facilities. This framework focuses on tourism planning as an integrated approach based on sustainability criteria. STIP aims to integrate a set of sustainability criteria (i.e. development objectives, visitor experience preferences, carrying capacity standards and resource impacts) into infrastructure planning via GIS. Based on these criteria, STIP provides protected area management insights in the most sustainable locations and layout of future infrastructure. STIP involves three phases: a visitor segmentation (not GIS supported) phase, a zoning phase (GIS supported) and a transportation network planning phase (GIS supported). To demonstrate the integration of these phases, STIP was applied as a trail planning demonstration on data (i.e. social and physical) from the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, a tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka's southwestern wet zone. The area experiences increasing visitor use and requires additional trail development to mitigate resource stress. Nature and cultural tourist opportunity trail networks were mapped based on the sustainability criteria which provide directives for sustainable trail development within the reserve

Business · Civil engineering · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geographic information system · Geography · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Tourism · Visitor pattern · Zoning · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Engineering · Environmental Science · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation

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