In the big data era, the social media data that contain users’ geographical locations are growing explosively. These kinds of spatiotemporal data provide a new perspective for us to observe the human movement behavior. By mining such spatiotemporal data, we can incorporate the users’ collective wisdom, build novel services and bring convenience to people. Through spatial clustering of the origi...

At present orthophotographs are essential sources of information in all areas. The generation of these products in urban areas can be difficult and specific rectification methods are neededin order to obtain advanced orthoimages that usually have been denominated as true orthophoto. In this paper, the principal results of a research project (DATOS –Development of an Advanced True Orthoimage Sys...

The work described in this paper is of direct relevance to those with an interest in the phenomena surrounding ICT adoption by the rural accommodation sector. The paper provides results from a preliminary study, which examined differences in the level of inter-firm technology adoption between rural and urban accommodation establishments within a major tourism destination, Scotland. Previous stu...

Through the study of standardized practices (walking tours, bus-tours) and devices (maps, guidebooks) for touring cities, this dissertation shows (1) how the city of Berlin is transformed into a virtual object, namely, an urban destination, (2) how such transformation is enabled not simply by tourist movement in space and being away from ‚home‘, but by tourist communication on the city, and (3)...

China tourism industry is investing to develop a “Golden Tourism Project”. One of the main objectives of this project is to improve web-based tourism online service quality and implement tourism e-commerce. In order to develop successfully the project it is necessary to investigate who are main tourism website users, what are their requirements for online tourism services and how do they assess...

particular factors play major roles in the development of urban tourism. cities with a plethora of tourist attractions and facilities often attract a large number of tourists. therefore, to pave the ground for developing urban tourism facilities, first it is essential to identify attractions and resources and then to assess and prioritize them. the existence of various attractions and the geogr...

Over the last few decades, some newly developed areas in the city of Isfahan have had serious problems in providing such urban design qualities as legibility, and this has led to various problems for the citizens like difficulty in way-finding, orientation or addressing. In order to solve this problem and enrich the legibility of newly developed areas, planners and designers should utilize appr...

The preliminary stages of a large scale culture-led urban regeneration project initiated by the Korean government in Gwangju were studied. Stakeholders’ perceptions of culture’s contribution to urban regeneration and their views on collaborative partnerships were explored. Qualitative data were gathered via semi-structured interviews from 19 purposively selected stakeholders. This case study de...

iran due to its unique condition in terms of tourist attraction and because of the specific location and a variety of natural resources and human phenomena, that different regions of the country including guilan province has a typical position in terms of tourism which attracts a lot of tourists. by itself, ecological, environmental, cultural, historical and religious attraction in the north, w...