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Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web Gis for Tourism Development, the Law and other Social Sciences

This paper examines current development in Web GIS with the implementation of Geospatial Mashup technologies, such as Google Map in the context of map Mashups, and presents a classification of map Mashups and their application in tourism management and promotion. On the Web GIS context, a Mashup is the process of merging multiple sources of data, both spatial and non-spatial, into a single integrated spatial display. It is about extracting spatial data from a non-spatial source and combining with other spatial data and finally displaying it on a map. this subject demonstrates that Geospatial Mashup has great potential to facilitate and widen the rapid development of the future web mapping technology in Web GIS in tourism development. It also highlights on the basic architecture and working principles of Map Mashups in context to tourism management. The final section of this research paper emphasizes on some issues and limitations inherent to the current Mashup technologies like privacy protection, copyright issues etc. which need to be worked out before its wider adoption.[1]

Evaluative Dimensions of Urban Tourism in Capital Cities by First-time Visitors, the Law and other Social Sciences

This chapter is dedicated to evaluative component of the social representations of historic European capital cities, comparing it before and after the first-time visit that took place in the period from 2011 to 2013. Based on the set of empirical data, it presents and discusses the integrative framework for evaluation of a city conceived as a resource in responsible urban tourism. In particular, the social representations of Madrid, London and Warsaw by 420 visitors from seven different EU and non-EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom and United States) are examined according to the modelling approach to the theory of social representations, focusing on the evaluative dimension present in an implicit and explicit way. Understanding how tourists assess the resource that they access, based on previous knowledge as opposed to direct experience, shall lay ground for enabling the policy makers and city planners to take into account the expectations of visitors while pursuing urban tourism development in the geo-cultural locations of European capital cities.[1]

Fifty Shades of Dark Stories: Dark Heritage as an (innovative) Tourism Product, the Law and other Social Sciences

Dark tourism is a special type of tourism, which involves visits to tourist attractions and destinations that are associated with death, suffering, disasters and tragedies venues. Reasons and motives for the visit are varied such as curiosity, learning, memory, horror, survival guilt, nostalgia and empathy. Dark tourism in Slovenia is very poorly developed comparing to the world. Therefore the paper proposes a typology of dark tourism heritage in the world and in Slovenia. The research based on in-depth analysis of literature and fieldwork give a variety of new opportunities based on storytelling for development future dark tourism products in Slovenia with emphasis on the design of dark and innovative thematic trail in connection with witchcraft.[1]

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  1. Lea Kuznik, “Fifty Shades of Dark Stories: Dark Heritage as an (Innovative) Tourism Product” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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  1. Annamaria de Rosa, Laura Dryjanska, Elena Bocci, “Evaluative Dimensions of Urban Tourism in Capital Cities by First-time Visitors” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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  1. Somnath Chaudhuri, Dr Nilanjan Ray, “Application of Geospatial Mashups in Web GIS for Tourism Development” (Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition, Information Resources Management Association, 2018)

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Social Questions > Social affairs > Leisure > Tourism
Industry > Miscellaneous industries > Miscellaneous industries > Service industry > Tourism
International Organisations > United Nations > UN specialised agency > World Tourism Organisation > Tourism
Economics > Regions and regional policy > Economic region > Tourist region > Tourism
Law > International law > Private international law > Rights of aliens > Admission of aliens > Tourism
Social Questions > Migration > Internal migration > Seasonal migration > Tourism
Environment > Natural environment > Physical environment > Aquatic environment > Water > Bathing water > Tourism

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  • Tourist industry
  • Tourism management
  • Hospitality management
  • Tourism planning