A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that collects, stores, manages, calculates, analyses, displays, describes, and transmits geospatial information with the support of software, hardware, internet and intranet networks. A geographic information system can process and manage a variety of tourism-related geospatial data and their relationships, including spatial positioning, graphics, remote sensing images, and attribute data, to analyse and process the distributions of various phenomena in a tourism area. The current statuses of the process and the tourist area are used to assist and address planning, decision-making and management issues.
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(2020). Geographic Information System. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_795
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