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The use of web-based dynamic maps in the promotion of the Titel loess plateau Vojvodina, Serbia, a potential geotourism destination

2009; Faculty of Agronomy in Čačak; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5937/geopan0903078v

1820-7138

Djordjije A. Vasiljević, Slobodan B. Marković, Thomas A. Hose, Biljana Basarin, Lazar Lazić, Vladimir Stojanović, Tin Lukić, Nada Vidic, Goran Jović, Sava Janićević, Darko Samardzija,

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Nowadays, the most common medium used to promote tourist destinations is the internet. Amongst the great advantages of the internet in the tourism business is that it enables the customer to have much easier and direct access to a very large amount of up-to-date information and visual description of desirable location than traditional printed media. It is nothing new to claim that tourism and maps are inseparable. Some web sites from countries where tourism is a major source of income, or destinations that depend on internet marketing, still make little use of maps, or at the most very simple and static maps. Alternatively, there are interactive maps that come into common use in recent years. These maps provide interactivity with their users by giving them exactly the information that is desired, saving time and space. Because of the unique and attractive landscape of the loess region of Vojvodina, there are some intentions by certain organisations to develop and promote this area as a geotourism destination. The purpose of this study is to present web-based dynamic maps from geographic sources promoted on the internet that could be later integrated into official websites. .