Search results for "Tourism survey"

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Walking tourism in urban destinations: some preliminary results from a survey in Malaga with gps-based technologies

2018

Walking tourism in urban destinations can be defined as a sequence of day visits and/or a sequence of walking tours. In this work, GPS tracking data on spatio-temporal behaviour of walking tourists in Malaga are reported as case study. Malaga is a booming tourist destination characterized by a city centre, particularly suitable for a pedestrian visit. From 22nd January to 19th March 2018 for a total period of 41 days, a survey was carried out with a specific protocol: 103 interviews were conducted and 101 GPS valid tracks were collected. Walking tourists were systematically sampled, starting from the population of all tourists staying in the surveying day at some selected hotels in the city…

Tourism survey GPS-based survey Malaga walking tourism urban destination city tourismSettore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
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Sampling in Local Tourism Quantification: Critical Issues and Field Experience

2013

The aim of this paper is to detail some issues relating to tourist sampling by means of three case studies. Tourism quantification issues and solutions will be illustrated in three paradgmatic situations: sampling in a self-contained context with multiple access points (an Island in Aeolian archipelago), tourism in a seaside town, and nautical tourism. In these contexts the issue of building a space-time grid to circumscribe the target population is made more complex by the mobile nature of these populations.

samplingmobile and hard-to-reach populationtourism surveySettore SECS-S/05 - Statistica Sociale
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