{"id":2523,"date":"2020-05-07T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2020-05-07T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T04:17:14","slug":"turning-the-tables-on-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lincoln.ac.nz\/gis\/turning-the-tables-on-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the Tables on Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post covers how a map of tourist spending for 2019 was done.\u00a0 Table joins were a\u00a0critical part of this.\u00a0 We also look at the mapping process and, more specifically, how to add pie charts to your map.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tourism,\u00a0as the most significant industry in terms of\u00a0foreign exchange earnings<\/a>, is one of the major sectors of the New Zealand economy. Lincoln has a good history of contributing positively to the cause.\u00a0 Part of that means that every year, we develop maps that aim to show the impact of international and domestic tourism in relation to regional GDP and how they change over time\u00a0 In this post, we’ll cover the process from go to whoa of how those maps come about.\u00a0 But first here\u00a0an example.<\/p>\n

Here’s the map from 2017 to give you a sense of what the maps do – we normally do the whole country but that year we only mapped the South Island:<\/p>\n

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Two primary things we’re trying to show in this map:<\/p>\n