APPLICATION OF GIS IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING OF BIJAMBARE PROTECTED AREA
Edin Hrelja[1]
Nusret Drešković[2]
Aida Korjenić[3]
Amina Sivac[4]
Original Scientific Article
DOI: 10.35666/25662880.2021.7.70
UDC: 338.48[911.2:528GIS](497.6 Bijambare)
Abstract: The subject of the research is the application of GIS in tourism development planning, a case study of the protected natural area of Bijambare. The research aims to show the benefits of the application of GIS in the use of existing and the establishment of new tourism products within protected natural areas. Protected natural areas are a valuable tourist potential, but as such, they are often under significant tourist pressure, losing their original role - nature protection. Therefore, it is necessary to consider all elements of the environment when planning the development of tourism within them. The application of GIS has a very important role in the overall process of valorization of tourism potentials and tourism development planning. The identification of tourist potentials is the initial phase in the process of tourist valorization, which in the modern scientific concept of research includes the creation of databases that are thematically established. Tourist valorization is also based on spatial data that include natural geographic (characteristics of relief, the hydrography of area, etc.) and socio-geographical characteristics of the area (proximity of roads, the proximity of emitting centers, etc.), and the most adequate can be seen using modern geoinformation technologies. The implementation of the mentioned concept of tourism development planning, presented through the conducted research, will contribute to the reduction of anthropogenic tourist pressures within protected natural areas.
Keywords: protected areas, GIS, planning, tourism, environment, Bijambare