تحليل أنماط حركة السياح في الوقت الفعلي باستخدام التقنيات الجيومكانية في محافظة أبها بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

There are many tourist cities in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including the city of Abha, and because of the elements, options, and many natural and recreational possibilities that this city has, it was one of the favorite destinations for tourists.

from this point on, this study mainly seeks to provide some scientific and practical contributions to enhance the objectives of the kingdom’s vision 2030, by analyzing the movements of tourists and their spatial and temporal movements to the tourist sites in the city of Abha, based on the process of data analysis using geographic information systems, tracking techniques, and its output in the form of an application for mobile devices.

the main objective of this study is to build a smart application based on geospatial technologies, using Arcgis pro, online, track viewer, Survey123 and API for Javascript technologies for mobile devices, which can track the movement of tourists temporally and spatially, after collecting, storing, analyzing and visualizing real-time data for tourist attractions in Abha governorate (parks, gardens, archaeological landmarks, malls), to benefit from the active role of geospatial technologies in analyzing, evaluating and raising the level of tourism services.

in the absence of an application that shows the most visited tourist places, while tracking the movement of tourists in real time, there was a need to understand the behavioral patterns of tourists and their movements, and know their needs and the most frequented sites, and what factors contributed to the congestion of some tourist sites than others, using geospatial techniques to provide solutions for decision makers, whether interested in developing tourist sites, or even officials in the ministry of interior to review traffic plans, based on the intensity of traffic in some tourist sites.

among the most important findings of the study after using geospatial techniques, al-Soudah park got 52% as the most visited, Abu Khayal park 44%, al Muftaha archaeological village 41%, and al Rashid mall 65%.