The Implementation Of Digital Tourism Platform Based On Google Earth

With the stable growth of social economy, tourism has become the essential consumption of people’s daily life. Tourism industry is one of the most rapid development industries in the world and is regarded as the key one in most countries because of advantages of no pollution and high profiles. And at the same time, digital tourism has got a great expansion under the promotion of tourism industry and information technology.Digital tourism is on the base of information technology, especially technology of computer, web, virtual reality, spatial data storage and management and 3S. In order to take the advantage of digital tourism in current tourism industry, it has become greatly necessary to build a geospatial information sharing platform, which is based on the technology of 3S. Google Earth is a software released by Google company which could meet the requirement of geospatial information sharing and distribution under environment of WWW. On the platform of Google Earth, Users could develop digital tourism applications, which would meet appointed requirement and achieve the purpose of information’s distribution and sharing.Thus, Google Earth could be seen as a basic platform of digital tourism system, which would play a important role in the distribution of tourism information, navigation of interests, promotion of tourism industry. Then this research would implement distribution of tourism information on the platform of Google Earth. All content is included as described below.Firstly, this paper would introduce level of development of digital tourism, current research situation at home and abroad and the research content.Secondly, basic principles of digital tourism would be expounded including the concept, clients, structure and core technique of digital tourism.Thirdly, analysis on the use and application prospect of Google Earth, Google Mapsand KML would be added.And lastly, Fangyingtai digital tourism system would be implementation on the platform of Google Earth.The research indicates that digital tourism system based on Google Earth could achieve the goal of distribution and sharing of tourism information and provide plentiful and promptly information for tourism management agency, tourism provider and tourism consumer, which would promote the stable and sustainable development.