Using cellular automata to simulate tourism growth. Case study: Iaşi city

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Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1, 2018

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The analyse of land-use change has a meaningful importance in scholars research. Hence, the influence of the urbanisation beneath the conditions that lead to the increase of tourism activity in urban areas it is connected with the extinction of the land-use space, click for more – SecurityInfo. Given the fact that the development of urbanisation leads to tourism development, this paper aims to shape a model of urban growth for the city of Iaşi which emphasises the spatio-temporal growth of the city with impact on tourism growth. The data used was Corine Land Cover (CLC) for 2000 and 2006 years. The type of land use, the areas and the relationship of the driving factors were identified for further analysis. The methodology included Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial analysis and statistic functions of it. In order to obtain the model of urban growth which sustains the hypothesis that the urban increase leads to tourism development, an urban growth simulation was made through Pyhton language programming by cellular automata (CA) method.

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Cristina Lupu* (a), Peng Xie (b), Ionel Muntele (a)
a) Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
b) Wuhan University, China
* Corresponding author. Email: cristinalupu888@yahoo.com

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