| Title |
Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City |
| ID_Doc |
37045 |
| Authors |
Encalada, L; Boavida-Portugal, I; Ferreira, CC; Rocha, J |
| Title |
Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City |
| Year |
2017 |
| Published |
Sustainability, 9.0, 12 |
| DOI |
10.3390/su9122317 |
| Abstract |
As cities become increasingly complex, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) bring smartness into organisations and communities, contributing to a more competitive tourism destination, i.e., smart tourism destinations. Enhanced information access coupled with a new kind of tourists avid for online content and predisposed to share information on social media, allows for a better understanding of tourist behaviour regarding their spatial distribution in urban destinations. Thus, smart tourism portrays individuals as information makers, refining the available alternatives for tracking their location. Big data analytics is a technology with the potential to develop Smart City services. From the analysis of the spatial distribution of tourists in the city of Lisbon based on data collected from the Panoramio' social network, we identify the most popular places in the city in a context of tourist visits. This new data largely contributes to understanding the consumption of space within urban tourist destinations and therefore enables us to differentiate the overcrowded places from the ones with potential to grow. This allows decision-makers to imagine new ways of planning and managing towards a sustainable smart' future. |
| Author Keywords |
smart city; smart tourism; big data; sustainability; social networks; geotagged photos |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000419231500163 |
| WoS Category |
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies |
| Research Area |
Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| PDF |
https://doi.org/10.3390/su9122317
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