Authors : Jadhav Ratnaprabha
Page Nos : 59-62
Description :
Tourism is the most important tertiary economic activity. Recently, the new concept of Rural tourism can be considered as an unconventional one.Tourism has great potentialities in all round socio-economic development of a region. Physical, locational and cultural factors determine the development of tourist places. For the present paper a detailed tourism-geographical information database of certain tourist places of ShirurTahsilof Pune district has been created in detail. The aim of this paper is to spread geographical knowledge obtained through surveys and application of geographical software among the common people, researchers and non-geographers who are not well expert to geographical techniques and software. Questionnaire method, survey, GIS methodswere applied to collect and analyze the required details.Various thematic maps such as geological maps, base tourist maps, etc. were created in ArcGIS software and these were simultaneously processed to obtain the road network, shortest route map and other relevant maps.
The tourists’ places have been subclassified into historical, religious, geographical and agro-tourism. The database contains tourism importance of the respective sites, geographical database- having climatological, geomorphological and geological information and how to reach a respective site based on shortest path analysis. The options of one day and weekend tours have also been chalked out along with shortest route maps. It is observed that such database helps to geographers, geologists, researchers and students to observe such wonderful places, landforms, their structural formation and processes. Thus this workwill support the overall development of the tourist places of rural Pune.
Keywords: Shirur, buffer zone, rural tourism
