Ecotourism is a concept and a fast growing segment of the tourism industry worldwide. It plays an increasingly important role in the socio-economic development of many districts and provinces in Vietnam. Therefore, it needs to be well planned and managed with the aid of spatial information technologies such as Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). This paper presents the results of building a GIS database for ecotourism development in Ba Vi, a large legendary mountainous district of Ha Tay Province based on field and desk investigations. The created database consists of spatial and attributive data files related to natural and cu...
