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2. Introduction The Pamporovo Resort, situated in the heart of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria was in 1966 that the Council of Ministers made Pamporovo a national resort. The Pamporovo Resort originally was limited to a 104-hectare region. in the 1980s new communities began to develop with hotels and vacation homes outside the resort boundaries. This plan was titled the Comprehensive Development Plan. In the Pamporovo Resort area, the plan had to overcome many problems within what had become a 695-hectare area. These problems included an old and overloaded tourist infrastructure, insufficient parking, rivalry and lack of coordination between resort structures, aging accommodations, poorly organized development of seasonal activities, lack of attractions and activities for nonskiers, lack of after- skiing activities, and coping with expansion in the neighboring areas.

3. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) :- Geographic information systems have emerged in the last decade as an essential tool for urban and resource planning and management. Their capacity to store, retrieve, analyse, model and map large areas with huge volumes of spatial data has led to an extraordinary proliferation of applications. Geographic information systems are now used for land use planning, utilities management, ecosystems modelling, landscape assessment and planning, transportation and infrastructure planning, market analysis, visual impact analysis, facilities management, tax assessment, real estate analysis and many other applications. Diagram showing the relationship of layers of data in a GIS

4. The plan The Comprehensive Development Plan expanded from the traditional multilevel analysis, combining knowledge and expertise in planning, economics, tourism management, and GIS. Implementing a successful GIS posed several challenges not uncommon to the time period and location such as lack of digital data, unfinished or updated cadastre, uncompleted land restitution processes, and lack of sufficient quantitative data about the area. Having examined a number of vendor options, the project organizers selected ESRI– Bulgaria (Sofia, Bulgaria) to aid in development of the GIS.

5. The plan(2) The available information from numerous institutions was systematized in different layers corresponding to the elements of the analysis. The existing plan was based on the resort's 1966 regulation plan and information from the land restitution and forestry plans. The schemes clarifying the general idea of the comprehensive plan identified the basic GIS information including ownership and land use; types of vegetation cover; elevation; slope and aspect; areas and routes for summer tourism; and elements of the technical, tourist, and social infrastructure. In some cases additional data was collected to improve the data set's accuracy

6. The plan(3) "The most important analysis we've made was deriving slope and aspect and deriving visible areas depending on chosen terrain points and hillshade," says Hristro Dechev, a member of the project team. "The most important analysis we've made was deriving slope and aspect and deriving visible areas depending on chosen terrain points and hillshade," says Hristro Dechev, a member of the project team. The GIS along with other technologies was utilized in the processes involving data collection and gathering, updating information, and planning and design and for presentations at public discussions

7. summary The project received two awards—the Union of Bulgarian Architects 1997 annual award for the implementation of a new methodology and the GISInvest Ltd. the most important accomplishment of the team was the new methodology, expanded content, and scope of the analysis, appropriate to the current dynamic environment. The information and the experiences gained were used to train architecture and geodesy students in landscape planning and GIS.