Search results for "tourist"

The analysis of motivations and holiday styles affecting tourists in Sardinia and Sicily: a segmentation study.

2011

W drodze do źródeł bytu. Symbolika czarnomorskiej przestrzeni w "Sonetach Krymskich" Adama Mickiewicza

2018

In 1825, Adam Mickiewicz - who was temporarily staying in Odessa by the tsar's sentence of exile - went on a trip to the Crimea. The Crimean Sonnets, recognized by the researchers of Romanticism as revolutionary and innovative, are a direct account of this trip. One of the essential poetic intentions of this cycle is to visualize the vastness of space experienced by the lyrical "I". Space - It has to be emphasized here - of the Black Sea region. This essay is an attempt to read its ambiguous symbolism. In the light of the research in the field of humanistic geography on the phenomenon of "space" and "place", It is interpreted here as the implication of the freedom of the world, which, along…

An Examination of Tourist Arrivals Dynamics Using Short-Term Time Series Data: A Space—Time Cluster Approach

2013

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Italian tourist areas ( circoscrizioni turistiche) through a cluster analysis of short time series. The technique is an adaptation of the functional data analysis approach developed by Abraham et al (2003), which combines spline interpolation with k-means clustering. The findings indicate the presence of two patterns (increasing and stable) averagely characterizing groups of territories. Moreover, tests of spatial contiguity suggest the presence of ‘space–time clusters’; that is, areas in the same ‘time cluster’ are also spatially contiguous. These findings appear to be more robust in particular for those series characterized by an…

A two-step, user-centered approach to personalized tourist recommendations

2017

Geo-localized, mobile applications can simplify a tourist visit, making the relevant Point of Interests more easily and promptly discernible to users. At the same time, such solutions must avoid creating unfitting or rigid user profiles that impoverish the users' options instead of refining them. Currently, user profiles in recommender systems rely on dimensions whose relevance to the user is more often presumed than empirically defined. To avoid this drawback, we build our recommendation system in a two-step process, where profile parameters are evaluated preliminarily and separately from the recommendations themselves. We describe this two-step evaluation process including an initial surv…

"Podróż dla przyjemności przez Górny Śląsk". Obraz krainy konstruowany przez niemieckiego turystę na progu XIX wieku

2017

Leisure trip through Upper Silesia is the text of a German author anonymously published in the „Schlesische Provinzial-Blätter” in 1805 (No. 41; German title – Lustreise durch Oberschlesien). Until now, it was perceived in the political dimension. It was believed that the text was to present glorious development of the region under Prussian rule and, therefore, it was interpreted as a justification for the benefits born out of conquest. The article’s author concluded that the content of this guide can be perceived slightly different, namely, in the perspective of developing travel literature in its various forms in the nineteenth century. Only through a combination of dual perspectives: 1) …

The Need to Approach the Management of the Tourist Destination by the Central and Local Public Authorities in Romania

2017

Abstract In the medium and long term, priorities in the development of tourism aim to develop a complex tourist offer, making the most of the natural and anthropogenic resources existing in connection with the preservation of the environment and the heritage. On the long run, it will contribute to raising the living standards of the population, especially social categories with lower chances of reintegration into the labour market (people made redundant in industry, elderly people etc.). Implementation of the strategy at regional level must be achieved through an active partnership between Romanian public authorities, economic agents and private investors, with the involvement of the federa…

One-Day Travelling: Main Features and Measurement Issues

2013

TOURIST MOBILITY AND DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS .

2012

Tourist Mobility. Implications on Incoming tourism Assessment

2013

Tourism Destination Brokers: a network analytic approach

2022

Understanding the interactions of tourist companies could be relevant for the destination’s organisation and management. The present article employs a network analysis to examine inter-organisational interactions and the various roles that some companies assume in tourism destinations. The results reveal the existence of a network in which enterprises, identified as brokers, take on strategic roles both within and outside of their specific sub-sectors of origin. This study proposes new social network analysis indicators to identify the distinctive and prevalent position of company brokers, who manage inter-organisational relations by spontaneously assuming specific roles within the tourist …