Mapping Cilento: Using geotagged social media data to characterize tourist flows in southern Italy

Tourism Management

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 295-310

  Chua, Alvin ^a   Servillo, Loris ^a   Marcheggiani, Ernesto ^a,b   Moere, Andrew Vande ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data mining; Flow analysis; Geotagged social media data; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MAPPING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; CILENTO; ITALY; SALERNO;

EID: 84976566594     PISSN: 02615177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.06.013     Document Type: Article

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