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

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-123

  Grinberger, A Yair ^a   Shoval, Noam ^a   McKercher, Bob ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

GPS; Hong Kong; time geography; tourist activity; tourist time space patterns

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GIS; GPS; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84899991198     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2013.869249     Document Type: Article

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