Impact of perceived distances on international tourism

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225315
• Publication Date: 2019-12-04T18:30:05Z
• Authors: Trivik Verma; Luís Rebelo; Nuno A. M. Araújo
• Keywords: Air travel

Worldwide tourism revenues have tripled in the last decade. Yet, there is a gap our understanding of how distances shape peoples' travel choices. To understand global patterns we map flow tourists around world onto complex network and study impact two types distances, geographical through World Airline Network, major infrastructure for tourism. We find that although Network serves as infrastructural support International Tourism does not correlate strongly with extent flight connections available worldwide. Instead, unidirectional flows appear locally forming communities shed light on travelling behaviour since only 15% probability finding bidirectional between pair countries. most to neighbouring countries mainly cover larger when direct flight, irrespective time it takes. This may be consequence one-way cyclic uncover by analysing triangles are formed Network.