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2017 International Conference on Communication, Control, Computing and Electronics Engineering (ICCCCEE), Khartoum
Sudan

Web-based GIS Business Hotels Tourism Sites

In Khartoum, Sudan
Taha Alfadul Taha Ali1, Rashid A. Saeed2, Sallam Osman Fageeri3
1, 3
Faculty of computer Science & Information Technology, Alzaiem Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan
1
Geoinformatics Centre, Alzaiem Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan
Emails: 1{Tahapilot13@gmail.com}, 2{eng_rashid@hotmail.com} 3{salfag2013@gmail.com}
,

Abstract – This paper implemented the web-based GIS Hotels
Business Tourism Site in Khartoum state. The motivation as
well as the problem statement is the lack of spatial data and
geographical informations of Business Hotels tourism in
Khartoum state, hence, lead to the unavailability of web based
Business Hotels tourism, also the lack of research papers in this
field. One of important goal is the way of supporting the
Business Hotels tourism and its applications in Sudan. The
material and methods of this study based on the collected and
classified Business Hotels tourism data, we start by analysis
phase, design phase, and implementation phase of web based
GIS Business Hotels Tourism in Khartoum state. The collect
and classified data shows a great promise for automated web-
based GIS hotel tourism in Sudan.
Keywords - Web-based GIS, Business Hotels Tourism,
Geodatabase, Amenity, Awareness.
I. INTRODUCTION
The Geoinformatics was become speed development and her
potentials applications were very wide in our life. Tourism
contributes to economic and social development of a country
and has emerging potential. GIS has defined many definitions
such as Bernhardsen defines GIS as a system that captures,
stores, manages, manipulates, retrieves and analyzes
geographic or spatial data through computer hardware/software
and other cartographic spatial devices to create map
products[1]. McAdam also defines GIS in a very simple way as
a relational database that is capable of manipulating both kinds
of spatial and non-spatial data together. Spatial data is in the
form of digitized maps and non-spatial data is the attribute data
in the form of alpha numeric records associated with the spatial
data [2]. Geographic information systems are used to collect,
analyze and present information describing the physical and
logical properties of the geographic world [3]. In other words,
it deals with the collection, storage, manipulation, analysis and
presentation of spatial or geographic data. Simply put, GIS is
an information system that allows the use of spatial information
effectively [4]. GIS has been widely used in tourism settings;
from information kiosks and hiking maps to web-based maps
[5]. As it enables the information transaction to a wide network
at the expense of low budget, the Internet is gaining in
popularity and in importance. The internet based GIS is more
mobile, powerful, flexible and better able in sharing and
communicating using geographical knowledge [6]. According
to Crain and Macdonald [7], GIS applications in tourism
settings can be viewed from the following: the first phase
(inventory) gathers the interest information [8], the second
phase (analysis) scrutinizes the information gathered and the
third phase (management) involves transferring data to a
decision support system. Table below show the capabilities of
the GIS on tourism application [9]. GIS offers the following
information, namely: First Tourism Resource Maps, which
allow for identifying the tourism resources sufficiency in
producing new tourism products, Second Tourism Use Maps is
used for land-use zones evaluation in order to detect conflicts
between land usage and Third Tourism Capability Maps serve
the purpose of tourism resources management in terms of the
development plan[10] The Case Study in Business hotels,
According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are
people who travel to and stay in places outside their usual
environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure,
business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an
activity remunerated from within the place visited[11]. The
word tourism as any business-like transport, entertainment or
places to stay, involved in the service of people who are on a
holiday. A tourist is an individual, who visits a place for interest
or pleasure, usually during a holiday [12].
Tourism can be defined as a set of activities (for leisure,
business, religious, health and personal purposes) engaged in
by person’s temporarily away (maximum of one year) from
their usual environment, excluding the pursuit of remuneration
from within the place visited or long-term change of residence
[13]. The Stephen and smith [14] were argued that they do exist,
and presents a model that describes the product as consisting of
five elements: the physical plant, service, hospitality, freedom
of choice, and involvement. Other researcher suggested five
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Sudan

and anther sex for example: The Five A’s of tourism: A5 Awareness Area study, Nile
Attractions, Access, Accommodation, Amenities and
Awareness [15]. The Six A’s of tourism: Attractions,
Accessibility, Amenities, Ancillary services, Available
packages and Activities [16] there is many research about web
site using geographic information system (GIS), here we are
divided depend on business stakeholders: First Group:
Government Support: many research focusing on government
decision support like the conceptual design and application of
web-based tourism decision support system (TDSS) of
Langkawi Island. Second Group: Community Support: many
research focusing on community decision support like Web-
Based Geographic Information System(GIS) for Tourism in
Oyo State, Nigeria[17], web based tourism information system
using geographical information system (GIS)[18].Third Group:
Tours Support: many research focusing on tours support like
Developing a Web-Based Geographic Information System of Fig 1 : Cross Data Flow chart
Housing in Madinah[19]. All of this research related of
communication field, but from this study focusing or
researching for all stakeholders (government, community,
tours).
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: Section II reflect
the study area. Section III explains the material and methods.
Section IV presents the result and discussions. The paper
conclusion presented on Section V.

II. STUDY AREA

The Study Area is Khartoum state, the capital of Sudan, it
divided to 7 lower government level called Al mahalyat they
translate it as localities, it is similar to districts, Municipalities
and they are (Al Khartoum locality, Al Khartoum bahri locality,
Um durman locality, Jabal awliya locality, Sharq alneel
locality, Ombadda locality, karary locality) [20].
Fig 2 : use case diagrams
III. MATERIAL AND METHODS

The methodology includes three phases: Analysis, Design and Users: there are many users to use the web-based applications.
Implementation Hardware and Software: this web-based need many Pc's,
. network and other hardware material. In addition, the software
A. Phase One: Analysis: includes GIS software.
This phase should illustrate the requirements of GIS
system, Figure 1 and 2; it include five requirements: Data,
Software, Hardware, Procedure, and People, Figure 3. We
should complete the collect and classified Business Hotels
Tourism data. This table below illustrates 5A’s [14].

Table 1: 5A's Datasets and Layers

Datasets Layers Fig 3 : Hardware, Software and Network Component
A1 Attractions Archeology, Museum
A2 Accommodations Hotels, Apartments Methods and Procedures: there are many procedures of this
A3 Access Streets, Bridge application depend need users. Several types of architectures ,
A4 Amenity Land use, Services
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Figure 5, can be used in the development of web–based GIS

application[21]

Fig 5: Main Screen/web Page.

Fig 4 : showing a 3-tier web based GIS application

architecture[22]

B. Phase Two: Design:

This phase should illustrate the geodatabase design; GUI Fig 6 : GIS Web Accommodation Tourism system.
design and Visualization is a basic key to how geographic data
can be represented. Each website has its own type of mapping
application it utilizes for its web based GIS application[21].

C. Phase Three: Implementation:

This phase should illustrate the implementation of GIS
web for Business Hotels tourism in Khartoum state figure 6 to
10.
Fig 7 : search for grand holiday hotel site.
IV. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

We implemented the GIS web for Business Hotels tourism in

Khartoum state. This system has many properties: Attractive
Main screen for dynamic web page map for accommodation
tourism in Khartoum, Tool bar for 8 button to apply the
application, Frame work to display the dynamic state map,
Show the GIS web accommodation tourism in Khartoum,
search for grand holiday hotel site, search for 5 Stars hotel site, Fig 8 : search for 5 Stars hotel site.
Network Analysis between Port to grand hotel site, Network
Analysis between Port to National museum.

Fig 9 : Network Analysis between Air Port to grand hotel site

and National museum
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Supports the website of the Tourist Information Systems (TIS)
for the hotels are three levels of decision-tourism, as follows:
the level of support the government's decision to support,
especially in planning for sustainable tourism development.
Site-level decisions to the tourism community is also supported
by the possibility of means of communication Hotel sights and
clarify the geographical features of the tourist hotels in
Khartoum state, and then produce a map of tourist hotels of
Khartoum State. Site-level decision to tourists is also supported
by its possibilities in the hotel to be the possibility to identify
and search for a specific hotel, in addition to the possibility of
network analysis select tracks from any one site to the other site
and determine the time of arrival. The studies recommend
developing a deeper study on the level of support the resolution
in Sudan tourism levels, and identify users and their powers and
functions to support sustainable tourism development using
GIS. The study also points to the possibility of future studies in
virtual tourist hotels to support the decision-makers at all levels
of tourism.
V. CONCLUSION
This Study built geodatabase depends on 5A's Datasets which
consider the GIS data model of business tourism. We design
and implemented business tourism site using geographic
information system, this web side helps and support three
sectors: Government sector, Society sector, and tours sector. In
our future work will add the representation Trace, network
analysis, and spatial analysis for web-based GIS Business
Hotels Tourism.
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