| dc.description.abstract | Central American countries lead the world statistics on tourism growth for the past few years. Even thought, the national government is doing their best on creating policies and promoting tourism; Honduras is not able to keeps up with the pace of other countries in the region. As a result, show a sluggish increase of the income generated from this sector and maintain low levels of competitiveness. Tourism, one of the world’s major industries, has become a third highest source of income for the Honduran government. Besides of generating foreign exchange earnings and investment, tourism has helped to promote a national identity, higher levels of development and enhancement of people’s life standards.
Honduras magnificent biodiversity and abundant natural resources offer a wide variety of attractions for the international tourists, such as archeological sites, historical monuments and splendid ecotourism. Without doubt, Honduras embodies a high touristic potential, currently not well developed. In order to have a better understanding of the current situation and find possible solutions, several questions need to be answer such questions are: What is the Honduras’s government working on? What’s making Honduras to have a sluggish increase on the income from the tourism sector? What would be an innovative solution for this problem?
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) might be an original solution for this issue. GIS is a system for capturing, storing, analyzing and managing data and associated attributes which are spatially referenced to the earth. In the strictest sense, it is a computer system capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, sharing, and displaying geographically-referenced information. This technological advancement can replace the government’s conventional and overrated efforts of developing and promoting the national and international tourism in the country. The creation of a website that integrates GIS tools, internet, geo-referenced data, satellite images, panoramic views, 3D modeling and up to date tourist information will improve the country’s international competitiveness and will help to promote environment conservation for the future. | en_US |