The acute contradiction between tourism economic development and ecological environment protection is becoming increasingly serious in many natural scenic spots. It became the focus of both managers of scenic area and scholars that using advanced information technology to track the swath law of tourists and realizing real-time control of the time and space distribution of visitors in scenic are...

The European Landscape Convention (2000) obligates European Union countries to identify and implement landscape quality objectives (LQOs) understood as the specification of public expectations and preferences concerning the landscape of a given area, expressed by competent public authorities. The convention emphasizes the important role of local community representatives in this field. In Polan...

In this work ubiquitous learning technologies are applied to Chinese scenic poetry appreciation. A folksonomybased approach is proposed to accumulate knowledge about poems and their corresponding scenic spots. A user can use a “Tagging” operation by a smart phone to associate a concept (a word, a phrase or a sentence) with a scenic spot. These associations will be recorded in a folksonomy, whic...

When tourists visiting multiple tourist scenic spots, the travel line is usually the most effective road network according to the actual tour process, and maybe the travel line is different from planned travel line. For in the field of navigation, a proposed travel line is normally generated automatically by path planning algorithm, considering the scenic spots’ positions and road networks. But...

WILLIAMS, A.T., SELLERS, V., and PHILIPS, M.R. 2007. An Assessment of UK Heritage Coasts in South Wales: J A Steers revisited. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 50 (Proceedings of the 9th International Coastal Symposium), 453 – 458. Gold Coast, Australia, ISBN 0749.0208 Much of the South Wales, UK coastline is designated as Heritage Coasts, based upon coastal scenic evaluations conducted in 1944-...

This paper demonstrates the possibilities of a Geographical Information System (GIS) for investigating and explicating spatial variation short-range viewshed aesthetic appeal in World Heritage coastal dune forest area. The study pursues following objectives: (1) develop trial GIS-based algorithm computing Aesthetic Appeal Index Short-Range Viewshed (?); (2) deliver an output map showing compute...

This study is an attempt to analyse the satisfaction level of tourists’ visiting popular coastal tourist destinations in state West Bengal India. Simple checklist approach along with Likert scale techniques was employed as a response format collect primary data from sample 300 tourists. statistical were used so-collected data. indicate that tourists more satisfied scenic beauty places, transpor...