Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data

For a long time, tourism statistics were the only reliable source of information on mobility. Tourism are inadequate for analysis tourist mobility within state borders and across Schengen Borders without using registered accommodations. Big data offers opportunity to gain better understanding movements, example, same-day flows in metropolitan areas. Here, we introduce concept satellite traveller more effectively investigate nature between large city its surroundings. As tourists communicate via cellular devices, use mobile phones an researchers explore pattern tourists. In this article, discuss specificities Hungary by SIM card users foreign countries. The is based Telekom database. We seek answer question what extent from tourists’ phone can help understand their movements identify frequented places less commonly accounted statistics. most important findings our investigation (1) confirmation former knowledge about spatial characteristics Budapest Metropolitan Region, (2) insight that far away settlements also visited travellers, (3) methodological limitations analysis.