Even at an early stage, diverse big data have been applied to tourism research and made
an amazing improvement. This paper might be the first attempt to present a comprehensive …

Tourism research has marched into the big data arena and brought remarkable
developments. Despite the promising role of big data and increasing volume of research, it …

Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of tourist movement behaviors is vital for
Destination Management Departments (DMDs) on destination planning, marketing, and …

The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the implementation of various tracking
technologies in tourism studies. A thorough review of literature reveals that 45 papers were …

We develop a methodology for measuring visitor flows to destinations using space-time
tracking data. Based on a review of the literature on this topic we propose that a tourism …

Research publications focussing on visitor attractions have increased in recent years, with
articles sourced from an increasingly broad range of disciplines and fields of study. Key …

Emerging big datasets about human mobility provide new and powerful ways of studying
cities and addressing various urban issues. However, human mobility has usually been …

This methodological paper discusses the implications of differing approaches for tracking
tourists' movement through destinations and then describes an innovative new method that …

Approaches to traditional travel diary construction rely on tourist participation and manual
recording; hence, they are not only time-consuming but also limited in the scale and the …

Time geography presents a conceptual framework to describe and understand the tourists'
spatio-temporal behavior, according to which the effective reach of an individual is defined …