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    Using user-generated content to explore the temporal heterogeneity in tourist mobility

    Jin, C, Cheng, J ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9778-9009 and Xu, J (2017) Using user-generated content to explore the temporal heterogeneity in tourist mobility. Journal of Travel Research, 57 (6). pp. 779-791. ISSN 0047-2875

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    Abstract

    In tourism studies, new means of data collection are opening up opportunities for disclosing hidden mobility patterns. This paper aims to analyze and model the tourist flow networks for different lengths of trip on urban scale, using user generated content (UGC) data collated from an open tourism web service. The textual UGC data, with high spatial and temporal resolution, is utilized to construct three tourist flow networks in response to length of trips. Social network analysis and a revised spatial interaction model are deployed for exploring the temporal heterogeneity in the tourist movements. This empirical study from Nanjing city has further confirmed the power law of distance decay in intra-urban tourist mobility. Furthermore, the research reveals temporal variations with length of trip. The paper highlights the role of time in the tourism study through incorporating a temporal dimension into the analyses and taking advantage of the availability of new data.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 17 May 2017 08:38
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript provided by SAGE Publications of a paper accepted for publication in Journal of Travel Research.
    Divisions: Faculties > Science and Engineering
    Research Centres > Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences
    Subject terms: Social Sciences, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, Social Sciences - Other Topics, tourist movement, user-generated content, social network analysis, gravity model, power law, temporal heterogeneity, MOVEMENT PATTERNS, NETWORK ANALYSIS, DISTANCE-DECAY, TRIP PATTERNS, HONG-KONG, DESTINATIONS, ATTRACTIONS, WORLD, TRACKING, IMPACT, Sport, Leisure & Tourism, 1504 Commercial Services, 1505 Marketing, 1506 Tourism
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/618432
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0047287517714906
    ISSN 0047-2875
    e-ISSN 1552-6763

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