Social media analytics and value creation in urban smart tourism ecosystems

Information and Management

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 703-713

  Brandt, Tobias ^a   Bendler, Johannes ^b   Neumann, Dirk ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Geospin GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

LDA; Location based services; Smart tourism; Social media analytics; Spatial analysis; Value creation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SMART TOURISM; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; VALUE CREATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85009815148     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2017.01.004     Document Type: Article

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