Expanding Typologies of Tourists’ Spatio-temporal Activities Using the Sequence Alignment Method

Several studies have been conducted on tourists’ activities that are suitable for understanding the typologies of these activities as a whole in time and space using the sequence alignment method (SAM). In this study, we expanded this analysis using SAM to clarify the characteristics of tourists’ activities in detail. Corresponding data were acquired by conducting a survey among tourists visiting the Ueno Zoo. The data collected from these tourists were then classified based on their preferred route types and the entrance/exit gates used by them. Consequently, we identified some of the typical activities in which they engaged and obtained detailed information on the characteristics and characteristic elements of those activities.