Extracting Spatial Patterns of Intercity Tourist Movements from Online Travel Blogs

Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs

In this paper, we propose a method for compiling travel information automatically. For the compilation, we focus on travel blogs, which are defined as travel journals written by bloggers in diary form. We consider that travel blogs are a useful information source for obtaining travel information, because many bloggers' travel experiences are written in this form. Therefore, we identified travel...

Understanding Travel Destinations From Structured Tourism Blogs

The increasing popularity of tourist generated content has created abundant opportunities for people to understand the opinions and experiences of prior tourists. However, till now no framework has been presented to automatically discover useful patterns from structured tourism blogs. In this paper, we present a method to mine the tourism information such as frequented spots and popular travel ...

Spatial and Temporal Tourist Dispersal Analysis in Multiple Destination Travel

Quantifying Tourist Behavior Patterns by Travel Motifs and Geo-Tagged Photos from Flickr

With millions of people traveling to unfamiliar cities to spend holidays, travel recommendation becomes necessary to assist tourists in planning their trips more efficiently. Serving as a prerequisite to travel recommender systems, understanding tourist behavior patterns is therefore of great importance. Recently, geo-tagged photos on social media platforms like Flickr have provided a rich data...

A Social Network Analysis of Tourist Movement Patterns in Blogs: Korean Backpackers in Europe

Given recent developments in information and communication technology, the number of individual tourists enjoying free travel without the advice of travel agencies is increasing. Therefore, such tourists can visit more tourist destinations and create more complex movement patterns than mass tourists. These tourist movement patterns are a key factor in understanding tourist behavior and they con...