ANALYSIS OF TOURISM RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT OF HYDERABAD CITY, TELANGANA, INDIA USING GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)

The well geographically located tourism resources represents the natural, social, economic and environmental values of the country. The analysis of tourism resources plays a key role in development of landscape with spatial planning of sustainable tourism of the city or country. The existed historical monuments, traditional and cultural designs, ancient architecture constructions, regional life style, natural landscape environments will be the major assets of tourism development. The protection and management of tourism resources for sustainable tourism will allow negative impacts on tourism which will be the principal objective of sustainable tourism development. The analysis of tourism resources with various tourism products will provide the comparative benefits of different tourism resources in the city. In view of this, the present study proposed an analysis of tourism resources for sustainable tourism development using Geographical Information System (GIS). For detailed analysis, the study considered Hyderabad City, which is located in Telangana State of India. In this study all the tourist resources in the city are identified and analyzed by detecting various tourism products. All the recognized tourist locations are evidently surveyed for various factors and then thematic layers are prepared for each factor using GIS. The prepared thematic layers were analyzed using overlay analysis tool in GIS environment with weightage and ranking factors. Based on the priority and significance, the resulted map was categorized into 5 classes as Excellent, very good to excellent, moderate good to very good, good to moderate good, and good.