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The Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-Based Recommendations, Geosocial Networks and Geoadvertising
2021
The amount of publicly available geo-referenced data has seen a dramatic increase over the last years. Many user activities generate data that are annotated with location and contextual information. Moreover, it has become easier to collect and combine rich and diverse location information. In the context of geoadvertising, the use of geosocial data for targeted marketing is receiving significant attention from a wide spectrum of companies and organizations. With the advent of smartphones and online social networks, a multi-billion dollar industry that utilizes geosocial data for advertising and marketing has emerged. Geotagged social-media posts, GPS traces, data from cellular antennas and…
The Conceptualisation and Measurement of Mega Sport Event Legacies
2007
This paper focuses on the legacy of mega sport events. First, the concept of legacy is defined before the problems of measuring and forecasting legacy are discussed. Benchmarking and the use of macro data do not correctly reveal legacy. Hence a bottom-up approach is introduced which identifies the event legacy by evaluation of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ event-related changes in a host city. These changes are defined as ‘event-structures’ (infrastructure, knowledge, image, emotions, networks, culture). Many of them change the quality of location factors of the host city in the long-term. The benefits/costs through the transformation of the host city are the legacy of a mega sport event. Here a partic…
Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in tourism
2012
This paper is based on the idea that user generated contents (UGC) about holidays, travels and destinations, widely propagated throughout modern social networks, have a topical relevance respect to the diffusion of the image of tourist destinations. More than other information transmission mechanisms, word of mouth (WOM) strongly influences consumer behavior and decision-making, especially when ‘experience goods’ (as in the case of tourism) difficult to be evaluated before their consumption are concerned (Wilson 1994; Griffin 1995; Silverman 1997; Rosen 2002; Dall’Ara, 2002; Lambin, 2004). The advances of ICT tools and the emergence of the Internet strongly influence word of mouth, since la…
Tour Leaders' Impression Management and Job Performance: Exploring the Moderating Role of Tourists' Self-Monitoring
2012
A tour leader (TL) is a first-line service provider whose performance shapes a tourist's experience and satisfaction during a journey. We examine the moderating effects of the self-monitoring level of group package tour members on the relationship between the use of impression management (IM) tactics by TLs and tourists' subsequent job performance ratings (PRs) of a TL. Data from 485 responses of tourists from 59 outbound tour groups in Taiwan revealed that TLs' use of positive IM tactics – that is, ingratiation, self-promotion, and exemplification – is positively related to tourists' PRs. In contrast, their use of non-positive IM tactics – that is, supplication and intimidation – is negati…
Domestic tourists’ experience in protected natural parks: A new trend in pandemic crisis?
2021
International audience; Since December 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic crisis has led to profound changes around the world with a lot of interdictions or constraints to travel outside one's own country. One of the major consequences has been the development of proximity tourism in outdoor spaces less conducive to the spread of the virus. From a study preceding this pandemic, this article seeks to better understand the experiences lived by domestic tourists when they visited protected natural parks in their country. Beyond the health risks, it analyses the dimensions and the influences of experiences lived in these parks by French domestic tourists (n = 500) using Pine and Gilmore's 4Es model (1…
Main well-being factors in tourism context : an application to active sport tourism
2021
La quête du bien-être représente l’un des moteurs des comportements humains, cette quête s’observant particulièrement dans le tourisme qui est considéré comme une activité qui le procure. Cependant, les causes du bien-être ne sont pas encore parfaitement appréhendées. Cet article a pour objectif d’identifier les principaux facteurs susceptibles de contribuer au bien-être vécu dans un cadre touristique en mobilisant le champ de la psychologie positive et celui du comportement du consommateur et, au-delà, du marketing. Dans un premier temps, les apports de la psychologie positive à l’analyse du bien-être seront exposés et, dans un deuxième temps, un modèle intégrateur des facteurs du bien-êtr…
Principaux facteurs du bien-être dans le domaine du tourisme : Une application au cas du tourisme sportif actif
2021
The quest for well-being is one of the driving forces behind human behaviour, this quest being particularly observed in tourism, which is considered to be an activity that provides it. However, the causes of well-being are not yet fully understood. The aim of this article is to identify the main factors likely to contribute to the well-being experienced in a tourist environment by using the fields of positive psychology and consumer behaviour and, beyond, marketing. Firstly, the contributions of positive psychology to the analysis of well-being will be presented. Secondly, an integrating model of the well-being factors in tourism will be suggested. This model will bring together the analysi…
Cluster and firm-specific antecedents of organizational innovation
2016
Based on the idea of the tourist destination as a cluster, this paper proposes a model to explain the relationships between exploration and exploitation capabilities – whether originating in the cluster or firm-specific – and a firm’s organizational innovation. This study turns to the resource-based view to provide a theory-based concept of shared capabilities accumulated in a tourist destination or cluster, together with valid measurement instruments to capture them. Our conceptual model highlights the theoretical and practical benefits for firms of being embedded in a cluster to develop both exploration and exploitation capabilities. The study also analyses the interaction between cluster…
Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea
2023
Sharks support ecosystems’ health, but their populations are facing severe declines worldwide. Knowledge gaps on shark distribution and the negative human perception of them still represent a barrier to the implementation of effective conservation measures. Here we carried out a regional-scale analysis in the Mediterranean Sea using data on requiem shark catches and sightings available in the scientific literature and on social media platforms to: 1) depict the distribution of Carcharhinus species across the basin, 2) identify potentially relevant areas for their conservation, and 3) evaluate people’s attitude toward shark protection. In addition, we administered 112 questionnaires in one o…
Ar ceļošanas vajadzībām saistītās informācijas sociālā tīklā FaceBook novērtējums
2019
Maģistra darba „Ar ceļošanas vajadzībām saistītās informācijas sociālā tīklā FaceBook novērtējums” ietvaros tika analizēta tūrisma informācijas satura sociālajā tīklā FaceBook atbilstība patērētāju vēlmēm un vajadzībām. Darba teorētiskā bāze balstās uz tūrisma nozares, patērētāju uzvedības un informācijas laikmeta komunikācijas teorijām, īpaši izceļot sociālo mediju teorijas, savukārt pētījuma veikšanai izmantotā metodoloģija ir kontentanalīze, aptaujas un eksperta intervija. Pētījuma gaitā tika analizēti 2091 FaceBook publikācijas, 300 aptaujas un viens eksperta viedoklis. Rezultātā tika izprastas ceļotāju vēlmes un vajadzības par tūrisma informācijas saturu sociālajā tīklā FaceBook, kuras…