Tourism can be described as local or international travel for the purpose of recreation, leisure, religious, cultural, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Often many places of interest are visited during the period of travel, be it for dining, site seeing, heritage tours and for various other reasons. Developing, managing and promoting a country’s tourism product can be a challenging pursuit particularly when, in addition to the traditional features of a tourism product, there may also be small but unique places of interest spread over wide geographical areas.
Some of the challenges involved in marketing those places may include costs and time associated with updating maps; an absence of spatial on tourism facilities and destinations; the absence of a comprehensive and easily accessible information base; and the absence