A Conceptual Information Model for a ‘Green Economy Tourism System’ (GETS)

Many tourism destinations are currently pursuing green growth strategies but the development of appropriate policies is a complex task and, consequently, decision support technologies can be used to advantage here. The design and use of one such decision support system (DSS) is described in this paper. Key features of the system are that its design is underpinned both by a need to effectively manage the inherent complexity of the analysis domain and to allow iterative development with minimum impact on previous versions (i.e. to minimize ongoing maintenance costs). A key to realizing both these objectives is the use of a highly-abstracted conceptual information model and this is the major focus of this paper