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Track: Information Access and the Internet
Diana Nahle
Lebanese American University
P.O. Box 13-5053/103
Beirut,
LEBANON
Telephone: none listed
Fax: (212) 870-2762
E-mail: imoghrbi@lau.edu.lb
Issam Moghrabi
A Multimedia GIS in Tourism
Defining Issue: It is the case that in Lebanon virtually no existent tourism software package supports the use of hypermaps; such maps are highly interactive, live, and attractive in presenting hot links to intelligent information associated directly to a geographic feature. GIS Solution: The Lebanese American University in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism joined effort with Esri's representatives in Lebanon to develop a live PC GIS hypermap package to be available on the WWW for requesting users. Methodology: ArcInfo is used in capturing data digitized from a recent map developed by the Ministry of Tourism to produce around thirteen layers of information. The layers are then imported into ArcView and appropriate links have been made between major tourist/historic sites and multimedia director applications that provide video/audio/pictorial information about the site. The information is intelligent in the sense it fetches hotels/motels within a specified radius and lists all available
information in addition to highlighting their locations on the map. Intelligence is added further in the ability to compute paths from a source point to any listed tourist site, which is computed using an Avenue script under ArcView. Software: ArcInfo and ArcView
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