GPS, smartphones, and the future of tourism research

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 251-261

  Shoval, Noam ^a   Isaacson, Michal ^b   Chhetri, Prem ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

GPS; Smartphones; Spatial behavior; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978311528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118474648.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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