Student:	Joseph MANGO
Supervisor:	Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hüsniye Ebru ÇOLAK
Department:	Harita Mühendisliği
Institution:	Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences
University:	Karadeniz Technical University Turkey

Title of the Thesis:	MAP MAKING USING GIS-CLOUD TECHNOLOGY FOR TOURISM INDUSTRY THE
Level:	M.Sc.
Acceptance Date:	3/6/2016
Number of Pages:	69
Registration Number:	i3041

Summary:

Tourism in Tanzania is one of the important sector that contributes much in the country s

economy. However, together with this fact, a lot of great and important tourism resource

information are not made available to the large public in the world. For this case, in order to make

sure that sustainability in tourism is retained, there is need of using internet environment to promote

tourism resources in a proper way so that information can easily be accessed by the public. Apart

from tourist attractions, others like food and drinks, security, political stability and transportation

system are among of the needed information to be addressed for tourists. That means a proper and

adequate information on promoting tourism is critical to merge with the other information factors.

By so doing, tourists at large will have enough information on deciding and plan the place to visit

and at the end a number of tourist travels will increase. The advancement of GIS and cloud

computing technologies has made possible to prepare and present tourists informations using

comprehensive dijital maps over the internet environments. By using the presented information on

the map, tourists can obtained detailed information when browsing hovers over the chosen

features via their own devices such as laptops, mobile phones and Tablets. Therefore, this study

uses both GIS and cloud computing technologies to develop a Spatially Based Website for Tourism

in Tanzania (SBWTT) that contains comprehensive digital maps which are dynamic and interactive

for tourists all over the world. The web map applications were prepared with MangoMap mapping

tool.

Key Words: GIS, Cloud GIS, Web mapping, Tourism, Tanzania