Scoping out urban areas of tourist interest though geolocated social media data: Bucharest as a case study

ABSTRACT: Social media data has frequently sourced research on topics such as traveller planning or the factors that influence travel decisions. The literature on the location of tourist activities, however, is scarce. The studies in this line that do exist focus mainly on identifying points of interest and rarely on the urban areas that attract tourists. Specifically, as acknowledged in the literature, tourist attractions produce major imbalances with respect to adjacent urban areas. The present study aims to fill this research gap by addressing a twofold objective. The first was to design a methodology allowing to identify the preferred tourist areas based on concentrations of places and activities. The tourist area was delimited using Instasights heatmaps information and the areas of interest wer

SUBMITTER: Nolasco-Cirugeda A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9574161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature