A Principal Components and Gis-Based Tourism Index for Jordan

• Al-Shorman, Abdulla ^[1] ; Magablih, Khalid ^[1]
  1. [1] Yarmouk University

     Yarmouk University

     Jordania

     
• Localización: Tourism analysis, ISSN 1083-5423, Vol. 10, Nº. 4, 2006, págs. 377-384
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • As choices of destinations and the fear of encountering the unexpected in tourism drive the attention of international tourists, this study comes to better aid in site management and to alleviate negative expectations. To achieve this, the present study proposes a tourism index (TI) for the country of Jordan, which has witnessed a rapid growth in the tourism industry. The tourism index relied on five factors that determine how international tourists plan their tours (climate, the development, accessibility, popularity, and proximity of the site). Each of the above factors was interpolated from data collected from 22 tourist sites using GIS. Assigning a value of 5 for the first four variables but of different weights, the TI was summed on the range from 0 to 100. The results show that Jordan is suitable for tourism any time of the year despite the location (TI = 50–85%), which stands for “marginal” to “very good” tourism activity.