التحليل المكاني لمواقع السياحة البيئية في شرق السودان باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية لأجل تطوير مستدام

الملخص EN

This study aimed to highlight the eco-tourism sites in eastern Sudan and to demonstrate the degree of its attractiveness and assess its adequacy of tourism services related to it by using geographic information systems technology as a knowledge tool and to emphasize the importance of using such technologies in revealing the relationships of natural and human phenomena and trying to find an appropriate explanations for them in order to build a geographic database for the study area to support decision-making and to contribute to sustainable development of these tourism sites, which is based on knowledge and good use of it as a basic pillars in future planning and in solving the problems which these tourism sites are suffering from.

The study used (ArcGis 10.3) software and its tools such as spatial analyst and network analyst to produce thematic maps on which the study is based.

The study reached results based on solid and accurate basis and among its results is that the tourism sites in the study area extend on Red Sea coast and possess the elements of tourist attraction and have achieved the spatial relevance of the prevailing tourism activity while the tourism services suffer from shortcomings in some of its aspects especially tourism accommodation and the study showed the possibility of expanding the accommodation services by choosing the most suitable place to build an hotel and suggested some solutions and recommendations.