ระบบสารสนเทศภูมิศาสตร์เพื่อการจัดการฐานข้อมูลด้านการท่องเที่ยว ในจังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์ / อานัติ จักรแก้ว = A geographic information system for tourist information management in Changwat Prachuap Khiri Khan / Arnat Chakkaew
To design tourism database system of Changwat Prachuap Khiri Khan by using the geographic information system technology ; to create the application program for presenting the tourism information and retrieving the information by using menu bar ; and to set the potential priority of tourism spots for future planning and development. Designing database in this research has been divided into 2 parts : spatial data and attribute data. After the database has been designed, it has been created later. The Pc Arc/Info 3.5 software has been used for creating the spatial data and the Microsoft Excel software has been used for creating the attribute data. These 2 database were combined together by using identical codes and the ArcView 3.1 software. Then application program was created by using Avenue language. For potential assessment, 14 variables were used for setting the priority of 39 tourism spots by using weight rating technique and correlation coefficient. After passing the methodology process above, the results of this research outputs were (1) Tourism database of Changwat Prachuap Khiri Khan by using the geographic information system (2) Application program for presenting tourism information which the users can retrieve the information by a monitor in the Thai-menu bar system and (3) categories of Potential value of 39 tourism spots that has been classified into 3 groups as follow : high (12), moderate (11), and low potential (16).