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Ministry of Tourism GIS Portal

A geospatial portal for the Ministry of Tourism that puts sector indicators on the map: accommodation facilities, population density, and other decision-support layers.

Role
UI/UX Designer
Year
Platform
Web (desktop), geospatial portal
Team
NSG Geospatial Services

Context

The Ministry of Tourism needed to read the sector spatially: where accommodation is concentrated, how it is distributed against population density and destinations, and where the gaps worth investing in are.

I designed the portal and its main layers, from how indicators are rendered on the map to the detail panels and region-to-region comparison.

Constraints

  • Indicators with different scales (counts, rates, densities) on the same map, so choosing the representation for each indicator was part of the design, not a technical detail.
  • The portal had to work for a quick look in a meeting and for deep analysis alike.

Design decisions

  1. [PLACEHOLDER] Decision 1 — replace with the key design decision

    [PLACEHOLDER] Why this option was chosen over the alternatives. To be written by Mohammed; interview material.

    Rejected alternative: [PLACEHOLDER] What was considered and rejected, and why it lost.

  2. [PLACEHOLDER] Decision 2 — replace with the second decision

    [PLACEHOLDER] Reasoning goes here.

    Rejected alternative: [PLACEHOLDER] Rejected alternative goes here.

Outcome

A geospatial portal with layers for accommodation facilities, population density, and other indicators, each with a representation suited to its data type, plus detail panels for comparing regions.

Retrospective

Showing population density together with accommodation on the same layer revealed patterns invisible in tables; sometimes the real value is in the intersection of two layers rather than either on its own.

  • GIS
  • Tourism
  • Portal
  • Data visualisation
  • Maps