Temporal Activity Patterns of Theme Park Visitors

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 601-619

  Birenboim, Amit ^a   Anton Clavé, Salvador ^b   Russo, Antonio Paolo ^b   Shoval, Noam ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

GPS; PortAventura; rhythms; Temporal activity patterns; theme park; tourist behavior

Indexed keywords

GPS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84885947862     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.762540     Document Type: Article

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