The application of a sequence alignment method to the creation of typologies of tourist activity in time and space

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-94

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

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Global positioning systems (GPS); Hong Kong; Sequence alignment methods (SAM); Tourist typologies

Indexed keywords

GPS; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION; TYPOLOGY;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84922764611     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b38065     Document Type: Article

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