Geographical Patterns in the Tourist City: GIS for Spatiotemporal Analysis

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Author(s): Luis Encalada (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Carlos C. Ferreira (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Jorge Rocha (University of Lisbon, Portugal)and Inês Boavida-Portugal (University of Groningen (RUG), The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 22
Source title: GIS Applications in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Somnath Chaudhuri (Maldives National University, Maldives)and Nilanjan Ray (Adamas University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5088-4.ch004

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management / Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management

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Understanding how tourists use space in urban environments has practical applications in destination management and planning. It reveals key issues for organizing facilities and essential services, creating new products, impact management, and other purposes related to urban tourism. The geotagged photos shared by Panoramio users, during their visit to the city of Lisbon between 2007 and 2014, allow the authors to incorporate into this chapter a quantitative and geographic reading on the tourist consumption of spaces within the city. In this chapter, they analyze the spatial distribution of tourists and its changes across time considering a period of 8 years. Furthermore, a regression analysis method was carried out in order to find the spatial relations between the observed pattern (geographical agglomeration of tourist ́s photos) and a set of 24 selected independent variables.

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