توظيف نظم المعلومات الجغرافية في بناء أنموذج مقترح للتنبوء بالطلب السياحي باستعمال أنموذج هوف -دراسة تطبيقية في بعض مناطق اهوار العراق

Abstract

The need for GIS has been evolved in the different  fields and specialties  such as urban planning, environmental protection, land uses, facilities management, and so on,  because of their ability to organize and analyze geographic information. One of these areas is tourism, as the world is moving at a fast pace towards the employment of modern technologies in all details of tourism in both preparation and dissemination of tourism information, arrangement and implementation of tourism programs and qualifying the tourist,  or in the design and construction of the hotel facilities and entertainment for tourists.

     The aim of this study is  to use GIS and employ it to determine the basis of tourism development for the tourist attractions .This means developing the natural and cultural tourism resources within the available total tourism resources and then determine the most important factors affecting the demand for tourism based on the utilization of these resources by building a model that can be applied to study the size of the demand for tourism in selected areas of the Iraqi Marshes. They are( Hor Om Alneaag) in Maysan Province,  ( Hor Abu Zrk ) in the Province of Dhi Qar and (Marshes Almsaheb and Alsalal) in the province of Basra . During the field visit to these areas and observation of the reality of the situation, as well as through a review of the relevant authorities in each of the Ministry of Water Resources, Environment , Planning and Tourism and Antiquities , and  the Council of Dhi Qar and Maysan ,the data and maps are collected and processed for building geographic information system private for the study of the area.