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Do Visitors Visit What the Tours Industry Supplies? Sightseeing Tours Versus First-timers' Photos

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    Identifier: imarina:9242983
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9242983
    Authors:
    Paulino IDomènech ABassols N
    Abstract:
    Tourist behaviour within destinations is a research topic of increasing interest. The most relevant approaches focus on demand and are aimed at detecting factors affecting travel patterns, or revealing the mobility flows shaping tourism destinations. This paper adds another layer to this stream of research by including the supply-side, contrasting it with the demand-side. It aims to detect potential market opportunities by overlapping the geographical distribution of geolocated user-generated photos from social media taken by first time visitors to Cartagena, Colombia, versus the attractions offered in city tours. Mixed-method approaches are used to analyse the association between both datasets, including spatial analysis, correlation and cluster analysis. The results show a partial overlap in the correlation between attractions included in city tours and geotagged tourist photos. This opens up a debate on the need for tours to adapt their products to how visitors consume the city's attractions and spaces of interest.

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    Author, as appears in the article.: Paulino I; Domènech A; Bassols N
    Department: Geografia
    URV's Author/s: Domènech Montaña, Antoni
    Keywords: Visitor travel behaviour Tracking data Tourists Tourist attractions Time Supply versus demand Place Movement patterns Mobility Management Flickr First-time visitors City tours Cartagena Behavior Attractions
    Abstract: Tourist behaviour within destinations is a research topic of increasing interest. The most relevant approaches focus on demand and are aimed at detecting factors affecting travel patterns, or revealing the mobility flows shaping tourism destinations. This paper adds another layer to this stream of research by including the supply-side, contrasting it with the demand-side. It aims to detect potential market opportunities by overlapping the geographical distribution of geolocated user-generated photos from social media taken by first time visitors to Cartagena, Colombia, versus the attractions offered in city tours. Mixed-method approaches are used to analyse the association between both datasets, including spatial analysis, correlation and cluster analysis. The results show a partial overlap in the correlation between attractions included in city tours and geotagged tourist photos. This opens up a debate on the need for tours to adapt their products to how visitors consume the city's attractions and spaces of interest.
    Thematic Areas: Tourism, leisure and hospitality management Saúde coletiva Interdisciplinar Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism Geografía Development Ciencias sociales Ciências ambientais Business and international management Antropologia / arqueologia Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: antoni.domenech@urv.cat antoni.domenech@urv.cat
    Record's date: 2024-09-07
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Tourism Planning And Development.
    APA: Paulino I; Domènech A; Bassols N (2022). Do Visitors Visit What the Tours Industry Supplies? Sightseeing Tours Versus First-timers' Photos. Tourism Planning And Development, (), -. DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2021.2023206
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2022
    Publication Type: Journal Publications

  • Keywords:

    Business and International Management,Development,Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
    Visitor travel behaviour
    Tracking data
    Tourists
    Tourist attractions
    Time
    Supply versus demand
    Place
    Movement patterns
    Mobility
    Management
    Flickr
    First-time visitors
    City tours
    Cartagena
    Behavior
    Attractions
    Tourism, leisure and hospitality management
    Saúde coletiva
    Interdisciplinar
    Hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism
    Geografía
    Development
    Ciencias sociales
    Ciências ambientais
    Business and international management
    Antropologia / arqueologia
    Administração pública e de empresas, ciências contábeis e turismo

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