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Capacity of the tourist accommodation in the Turks and Caicos Islands, 2020

The dataset comprises an information about locations and number of available bedrooms for all the types of tourist accommodation in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The data was collected in November 2020.

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Last Updated December 13, 2022, 11:02 (UTC)
Created December 8, 2020, 20:20 (UTC)
Region TC
Language eng
Topic Category Economy; economic activities, conditions and employment
Temporal Extent Start 2020-10-01
Temporal Extent End 2020-12-31
Dataset Reference Date 2020
Lineage The locations of accommodation sites were collected mostly from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. Number of bedrooms was collected from various available websites including: tripadvisor, vrbo, airbnb and websites of the properties if available. The dataset was prepared in WGS84 coordinate system using Bing satellite imagery as a background. The dataset was created in order to estimate an impact of tourism industry to the marine environment in the Turks and Caicos Islands and should not be used for other purposes.
West Longitude -72.33831
South Latitude 21.48769
East Longitude -71.49830
North Latitude 21.96187
Spatial Reference System WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Department of Environment and Coastal Resources
Contact Mail Address mgorny@saeri.ac.fk
Responsible Party Role resource provider, custodian, user, distributor, originator, point of contact, processor
Access Limitations Restricted, send data request to point of contact
Use Constraints To be used for research only
Data Format shape, csv
Update Frequency as needed
Accuracy 2-5 meters
Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date 2020-12-09
Metadata Point of Contact mgorny@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent Contact details published