First and Repeat Visitor Behaviour: GPS Tracking and GIS Analysis in Hong Kong

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 147-161

  McKercher, Bob ^a   Shoval, Noam ^b   Ng, Erica ^a   Birenboim, Amit ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

First time visitors; geographical information systems; GIS; global positioning systems; GPS; Hong Kong; repeat visitor; tourist behaviour

Indexed keywords

GIS; GPS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL TIME;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84857300096     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2011.598542     Document Type: Article

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