GIS Tools for Assessing Wine Tourism Potential in Slovak Republic

Each country aims to promote and raise the profile of its tourism potential as much as possible. In terms of content, the contribution is focused on the assessment of development potential of wine tourism as the popular activity. The contribution is aimed to identify and analyze the basic objects of wine tourism in terms of assessing their potential. The contribution is based on the comparison and definition of individual objects that define the foundation of wine tourism. The methodology and methods of processing are dependent on the type and nature of the studied group of objects, whose spatial data are needed for the processing. For that reason, possibilities of modern technologies, applied primarily for conditions of spatial data collection, will be included. With solving the formulated problem on the mind, there followed the identification of the factors through indexes of wine tourism will be subsequently subjected to processing in the GIS environment.