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Exploring tourist activities across cultures based on venue check-in data

conference contribution
posted on 2019-01-01, 00:00 authored by Quan VuQuan Vu
Insights into tourist activities play an important role in strategic planning and decision making of destination management organisations (DMOs) to utilise the great economic benefits of the tourism industry. Yet, complete and comprehensive understanding about tourist activities has not been obtained. This paper introduces venue check-in data as an effective means to capture and explore tourist activities at a comprehensive manner. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach through a case study of inbound tourists to France using a large-scale data set. The analyses reveal activity preferences and temporal behaviour of tourists from 14 source countries on various activity categories, which are useful for DMOs in tourism management applications. The introduced method is beneficial to tourism researchers in capturing and gaining comprehensive insights into tourist activities.

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Event

Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education. Conference (29th : 2019 : Cairns, Qld.)

Series

Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education Conference

Pagination

491 - 496

Publisher

Central Queensland University, Australia

Location

Cairns, Qld.

Place of publication

Cairns, Qld.

Start date

2019-02-11

End date

2019-02-14

ISBN-13

978-0-9945141-4-1

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1.1 Full written paper - refereed; E Conference publication

Copyright notice

2019, Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education

Editor/Contributor(s)

[Unknown]

Title of proceedings

CAUTHE 2019: Sustainability of tourism, hospitality & events in a disruptive digital age: Proceedings of the 29th Annual CAUTHE Conference

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