Enhancing exercise visitors’ behavioral engagement through gamified experiences: A spatial approach

“Quantified” travelers often use mobile exercise apps and gamified features to manage their physical activities while visiting destinations. Accordingly, this study empirically explores the spatially varying relationships between visitors' experiences—place curiosity social recognition—and behavioral engagement. Using novel data from app users’ activity logs spatial analytical methods, finds that experiences have differential effects on times distance of tourist resident visitors. Furthermore, visitor gamification-engagement relationship varies according type experience individual clustered locations. These findings offer important implications for integrating with destination management improve engagement, which enhances our knowledge smart tourism design.