Typologies of tourists’ time–space consumption: a new approach using GPS data and GIS tools

Grinberger, A. Yair; Shoval, Noam; McKercher, Bob

doi:10.1080/14616688.2013.869249

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“…La recogida sistemática de información permite automatizar los registros y crear modelos de comportamiento, siguiendo el modelo clásico de Hägerstrand (Hägers-trand, 1970). De hecho, empieza a ser una práctica recurrente en el mundo académico y, últimamente, está apareciendo un elevado número de estudios que analizan los patrones de movimiento de los turistas usando GPS (Shoval y Isaacson, 2006Chhetri y Arrowsmith, 2008;Tchetchick et al, 2009;Zillinger, 2010;Russo et al, 2010;Pettersson y Zillinger, 2011;Shoval et al, 2011;Mckercher et al, 2012;Orellana et al, 2012;Wolf et al, 2012;Hallo et al, 2012;Birenboim et al, 2013;Bauder, 2014;Grinberger et al, 2014), con el fin de recoger datos sobre su comportamiento espacial y temporal con resultados bastante acertados.…”

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“…Así, una de las áreas más comunes es la de los espacios naturales (Chhetri y Arrowsmith, 2008;Orellana et al, 2012;Wolf et al, 2012;Hallo et al, 2012). También empiezan a aparecer estudios en parques temáticos y espacios lúdicos (Zillinger, 2010;Russo et al, 2010;Pettersson y Zillinger, 2011;Birenboim et al, 2013); en grandes ciudades como Hong Kong (Shoval et al, 2011;Mckercher et al, 2012;Grinberger et al, 2014), Freiburg (Bauder, 2014) o Sydney y Camberra (Edward et al, 2010); y finalmente, en centros históricos y ciudades monumentales (Tchetchick et al, 2009;Van der Spek, 2010). Destacan en esta última línea, por ser los primeros, especialmente los trabajos de Shoval y Isaacsson (2006 en Heidelberg, en el centro histórico de Jerusalén, Nazaret, Acre y la vieja Jaffa.…”

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El uso de GPS para el análisis del comportamiento espacio-temporal de los turistas. Pre-test en el Valle de Boí

Donaire

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Vela

2015

turismo

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RESUMENEste artículo es un análisis exploratorio sobre el uso de los GPS para estudiar el comportamiento de los visitantes en un espacio abierto. El Valle de Boí es un escenario turístico que ofrece diversos recursos de primer orden, por lo que el estudio de los recorridos de los visitantes permite analizar la respuesta a estímulos muy diferentes. Los resultados demuestran que el recurso del GPS en espacios abiertos permite ampliar la información sobre el uso social del espacio turístico y abre las puertas a nuevas formas de análisis.Palabras clave: comportamiento turístico, GPS, actividad espacio-temporal, Valle de Boí. Using GPS to analysis time-space tourists' behaviour. A pre-test study in Boí Valley ABSTRACTThis article is an exploratory analysis of the use of GPS for the study of visitors' behaviour in an open space. The Boi Valley is an open space that offers important tourism resources, so

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El uso de GPS para el análisis del comportamiento espacio-temporal de los turistas. Pre-test en el Valle de Boí

Donaire

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2015

turismo

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“…Those who are new to a destination may spend more time visiting, because they explore the destination more, ensuring they visit the primary attractions [7,12]. However, Grinberger et al [8] found that previous knowledge of the destination (from previous experience or from information) did not seem to have any influence on the behavior of the various clusters of tourists identified. In the present analysis, first time vs. repeat visitors are included as a determinant variable of time consumption.…”

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Factors Affecting Time Spent Visiting Heritage City Areas

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Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption is critical to better managing their impact on the city, and creating a sustainable city tourism destination. This has generated an increasing interest in the micro-spatial and temporal dimensions of tourist behavior in city tourism research and planning. This article focuses on modelling the factors affecting the duration of visits to each heritage attraction, and to the whole visit to the heritage city. This study adds to previous research in several ways: it uses survival models; distinguishes between attractions with and without an entrance fee; and tests how visitor type affects time behavior, for example, day visitor versus tourists, peak season versus off-peak season, informed visitors versus non-informed visitors, highly motivated visitors versus visitors with low motivation. Results show that there is significant heterogeneity in time consumption. This is generated by factors such as traveling with children, cultural proximity, rating of the attraction, and price and time constraints. Some evidence is also found, which suggests first-time visitor and informed visitors have an impact on time consumption.

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“…These characteristics differ from those inherent to urban destinations and require new approaches for the analysis of mobility. In an urban destination, such as Hong Kong (Grinberger et al [7]), 95% of the tourists whose movements have been analysed keep their journeys to a minimum in order to have more time at the sites/activities that can be identified as points of interest. The time at the sites/activities is more important than the space.…”

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“…The majority of the studies are centred on urban environments (Edwards and Griffin [6], Grinberger et al [7], Lau and McKercher [8], Shoval and Isaacson [5]) and, to a lesser extent, on natural destinations (Donaire et al [9], Hallo et al [10]), fewer studies having been conducted in coastal environments, usually associated with sun and sand tourism. Obviously, these destinations do not pose the same problems with regard to mobility as the large urban agglomerations, whilst at the same time the behaviour of the demand tends to be more passive in comparison with urban destinations.…”

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Tourist mobility at coastal mass destinations: implications for sustainability

Ivars¹,

Celdrán²,

Triviño³

et al. 2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial behaviour of mass tourism demand in coastal destinations and its implications from the point of view of sustainable tourism development. The paper is based on primary research carried out in one of the main Mediterranean tourist destinations, Benidorm (Spain). This research involved the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices for the tracking of a sample of 257 tourists (from Spain and United Kingdom). Although the research has an experimental basis, these advanced technologies allow new approaches to spatial analysis in order to achieve a better understanding of tourist mobility at coastal destinations. Until now, most studies of intradestination movements have been applied to urban and cultural destinations, where the points of interest and tourist routes are easily identifiable. However, spatial behaviour of mass tourism in coastal destinations has rarely been studied in detail using new tracking technologies. While tourist movements may seem, a priori, predictable, the identification of mobility patterns offers interesting results about the main characteristics of the tourist experience, the relationship with the urban model, the use of public and private spaces, the perception of the destination, and the differences between segments of demand. The conclusions of the study are relevant from the methodological and theoretical point of view, and include some recommendations for planning and destination management in the context of sustainability.

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Typologies of tourists’ time–space consumption: a new approach using GPS data and GIS tools

Cited by 115 publications

References 54 publications

El uso de GPS para el análisis del comportamiento espacio-temporal de los turistas. Pre-test en el Valle de Boí

El uso de GPS para el análisis del comportamiento espacio-temporal de los turistas. Pre-test en el Valle de Boí

Factors Affecting Time Spent Visiting Heritage City Areas

Tourist mobility at coastal mass destinations: implications for sustainability

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