Researchers have adopted online data such as search query volumes to forecast tourism demand for a destination, including tourist volumes and hotel occupancy. However, the massive yet highly correlated query data pose challenges when researchers attempt to include them in the forecasting model. We propose a framework and procedure for creating a composite search index adopted in a generalized d...

The purpose of this article is to propose a model that links broader general personality and travel personality traits with tourists’ information behaviour. The model asserts that both types of personality traits will have an influence on tourist information behaviour. Furthermore it is asserted that tourist information needs will have an influence on other tourist information behaviour, includ...

In literature, analyses can be found of the competitiveness of international tourist destinations, based on tourist satisfaction with different attributes. However, most of these analyses do not use one single measure to make a global assessment, which makes it difficult to compare destinations. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, some alternatives that can be used as a synthetic index of ...

Tourist services are one of the most popular products offered online. This has given rise to all service suppliers to offer their products over the Internet. Currently elementary services as hotels, flights or rental cars and travel packages can be booked online. Despite the high interdependence of tourist products there is no possibility for easy and user friendly online bundling of tourist pr...

This study aims to test a model linking destination image, perceived value, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty. Based on a sample of 300 tourists travelling by car from the World Natural Heritage Site of Tianchi, China, a new model of destination image was explored and data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that perceiv...

When tourists visit a city or region, they usually cannot visit every point of interest available as they are constrained in time and budget. Tourist recommender applications help tourists by facilitating personal selection. Providing adequate tour scheduling support for these kinds of applications is a daunting task for the application developer. The objective of this article is to demonstrate...

This study aims to test a model linking destination image, perceived value, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty. Based on a sample of 300 tourists travelling by car from the World Natural Heritage Site of Tianchi, China, a new model of destination image was explored and data were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The results show that perceived ...

This paper examines the existence of long-run relationships between East Asian economic integration and tourism exports for nine selected ASEAN States for the period 1996-2007. I employ tourist arrivals data as a proxy for tourism exports and trade ratios as a proxy for the economic integration. Using Johansen’s Fisher panel cointegration test, the findings show that tourist arrivals and trade ...

With the recent advances in Internet and mobile technologies, there are increasing demands for electronic access to tourist information systems for service coordination and process integration. Mobile computing and mobile devices are used to implement various tourist services (e.g. electronic tourist guides, digital interactive maps, and tourist e-commerce transactions). However, due to dispara...

This paper presents the development of the Tourist Guide, a location based tourist guide application for the outdoor environment. Our focus for this project is on software support for location based applications; we are not just interested in the location but also other elements of the user’s context, such as buildings in view, attractions and equipment near by, such as public telephones and to...