Segmentation of visitors to a heritage site using high-resolution time-space data

Journal of Travel Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 216-229

  Tchetchik, Anat ^a   Fleischer, Aliza ^a   Shoval, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acre Israel; Choice modeling; GPS; Heritage tourism; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; GPS; HERITAGE TOURISM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ACRE [NORTHERN DISTRICT]; ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 70350435240     PISSN: 00472875     EISSN: 15526763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047287509332307     Document Type: Article

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