2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Management and Promotion of Tourism in Ghana: A GIS Approach Track: Business GIS Author(s): Daniel Longmatey, Samuel Amoako-Atta, Benjamin Prah Ghana's Tourism industry is currently a leading provider of foreign exchange income for the West African country. And already government efforts are under way to support effective management and promotion of the industry. Though several attempts have been made to enhance its rapid development and promotion, these have suffered some major drawbacks due to the lack of a comprehensive spatial database of tourism facilities and destinations. By using GIS, a common platform can be defined to provide a spatial databank with integrated multimedia features. This paper discusses the application of GIS and multimedia tools for archiving, analysing and displaying of tourism information for the efficient management and promotion of the tourism industry in Ghana. Daniel Longmatey Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Computing & Mathematical Science Department 6300 Ocean Drive NRC 2100 Corpus Christi , TX 78412 US Phone: 361-825-3442 E-mail: dlongmatey@sci.tamucc.edu Samuel Amoako-Atta Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Computing & Mathematical Science 6300 Ocean Drive NRC 3200 Corpus Christi , TX 78412 US Phone: 361-825-5869 E-mail: samyte@yahoo.com Benjamin Prah Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology Geodetic Engineering Department School of Engineering Kumasi , Ashanti Region + GH Phone: +233-51-60227 E-mail: benprah@yahoo.com |
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