tourism gi

Question 1

What is accuracy

Answer 1

a measure of how close the data is to the actual true value

Question 2

What affects accuracy

Answer 2

Instrument readings

Question 3

How to improve accuracy

Answer 3

Calibrate instruments

Question 4

What is reliability

Answer 4

Results close to each other (consistent)

Question 5

How improve reliability (2)

Answer 5

take a large number of samples/repeats

increase frequency of data collection

Question 6

How determine validity (2)

Answer 6

Reliability + Accuracy

valid data/results/conclusions answer the hypothesis

Question 7

When use scatter graph and when use liner graph

Answer 7

Scatter graph: used to compare two variables (not time)

Linear Graph: used to compare a variable against time (yes time)

Question 8

What’s a landuse survey and how can it be used to conduct a tourism GI?

Answer 8

• Carried out to collect data on the type and distribution of land use
in an area
• Tourism: identify the types of shops or services in an area

Question 9

how to make landuse survey (5 steps, use ur own words)

Answer 9

• On a blank sheet of paper, mark out the selected street.
• From the starting point (which should be at one end of the selected
street), start walking down and observing the different land uses on
the ground floor or the second floor of the shop houses if applicable.
• Use boxes to represent the shop houses / shops along the selected
street.
• Label the different land uses observed in the respective boxes.
• Repeat this process until you reach the other end of the street

Question 10

What are some features a landuse map have (5)

Answer 10

• Title
• Legend for classification of landuse – appropriate terms, colour
scheme
•  labelling and annotation
• Direction
• Date and time

Question 11

What is the optimal length for questionaire

Answer 11

10 qns (mostly closed)

Question 12

What is the optimal questionaire design (6)

Answer 12

• Do not put in embarrassing or irrelevant questions
• Balance of open and closed questions
• Avoid sensitive questions
• Avoid leading questions
• Avoid double questions
• Avoid double negatives in qns questions

Question 13

What is interview used for

Answer 13

To get a more in-depth and open ended information

can follow up after survey

Question 14

What is a perception survery

Answer 14

• A survey using pairs of opposite words to talk about something
• Shows the two extreme ends of each pair (eg: clean versus dirty)
• Alternatively use a Bi-polar scale (-3 to +3) to indicate a negative
assessment through to a positive assessment, with 0 representing
neither good nor bad
• Respondents will select the scale which represent their views