Measuring tourism destinations using mobile tracking data

Tourism Management

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 202-212

  Raun, Janika ^a   Ahas, Rein ^a   Tiru, Margus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Positium LBS   (Estonia)

Author keywords

BIG data; Destination; Destination management; Estonia; Mobile positioning; Tracking

Indexed keywords

TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ESTONIA;

EID: 84976310614     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.06.006     Document Type: Article

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