Karienye, D. at ENTER2016 eTourism Conference

1. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 1
APPLICATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
SYSTEMS IN CLIMATE CHANGE FOR SUSTAINABLE
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MOUNT KENYA TOURIST
CIRCUIT
David Kamau Karienye
Garissa University College, Kenya
dkarienye@gmail.com

2. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 2
Problem Definition
• Tourism as key development sectors in Kenya
GDP 12.1%
• Environmental Conditions and tourism
• Climatic changes impacts on tourism industry
• Geographic Information System as a tool to
Climate Change uncertainties
• GIS can provide the geographic conditions of
the destinations.

3. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 3
Literature Review
• Climate change and environmental pollution
are emerging issues in sustainable tourism
• Africa’s tourist destinations and
infrastructures.
• The tourism sector in Kenyan economy. 10.6%
of total employment in 2013 (Impact, 2014)
• Poor nations are likely to suffer more
• Global warming will affect tourist sites

4. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 4
Impact of Climate Change on
Tourism Development
• Extreme weather events.
• Gradual changes in temperature
• Drought prompt species to migrate.
• Reduced access to tourist destinations.
• Loss of biodiversity

5. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 5
Impacts Continuation
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6. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 6
Role of GIS as a source of information
to tourism sector
• Provide sufficient and reliable data
• Indicators estimation
• Generating maps for planners
• Simulation on the effects of climate change
• Consolidating geographical information

7. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 7
GIS FRAMEWORK
LAYERS
Infrastructure maps
Precipitation maps
Tourism map
Wildlife Migration
Temperature maps
Sites and attraction
SUSTAINABLETOURISM
DEVELOPMENT
LOCAL IMPACTS
Loss of biodiversity
Loss of infrastructure
Retreat of glaciers
Shift of wildlife
Water scarcity
Environmental pollution
GLOBALIMPACT
Rainfallvariations
Temperaturevariations
INFORMATIONANDDECISIONMAKING
Conceptual Development

8. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 8
Methodology
• Qualitative
»Interviews
»Photographs and field observations
»Focus group discussions
• Quantitative
»Structured questionnaires
»Climatic data
»Tourist flows

9. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 9
Continuation, Methodology
Data analysis
»Descriptive statistics
»Inferential statistics
»Document analysis.
»ArcGIS software
Data presentations
»Trend analysis
»maps

10. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 10
Anticipated Results
• Climate change Model
• Map generated
• Information acquisition

11. ENTER 2016 PhD Workshop Slide Number 11
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