Because of high fluctuations tourism demand, accurate predictions tourist arrivals are importance for organizations. The study at hand presents an approach to enhance autoregressive prediction models by including travelers’ web search traffic as external input attribute arrival prediction. proposes a novel method identify relevant terms and aggregate them into compound web-search index, used additional approach. As methods predict arrivals, the compares integrated moving average (ARIMA) with...

This study contributes to the development of knowledge on transferring concept customer-based brand equity a tourism destination context. Keller’s pyramid is utilized as comparison framework reveal similarities, but also overlaps, differences and gaps both conceptual measurement level existing models for destinations. Particularly, inner core model depicts complex mechanisms how resources transform into benefits tourists overlooked by prior research. proposes destinations, which consists...

The purpose of this research is to explore the role online photography in creating experience value nature-based tourism, and what types are conveyed through photography-based user-generated content. paper draws from existing literature defining tourism as a subjective, inter-subjective inter-contextual construct, performed by situated valuation practices. Consequently, presents interpretive participatory netnography an effective method investigate value, identifies on Instagram both valuing...

The concept of smart tourism destinations has gained increased interest in research. In this study, we show how previous research shaped the current discourse on destinations. By analysing meta-narratives, outline use language influenced domain When scope a field is broad and still unclear, systematic meta-narrative analysis literature recommended, to provide holistic view an understanding narratives unfold over time. Our findings highlight that there are certain words dominate contemporary...

The concept of smart tourism destinations has gained increased attention in research literature and among stakeholders. However, the is still considered need more in-depth explanations for understanding making sense notion. contribution to managerially relevant knowledge particularly difficult assess due its complexity. Therefore, a qualitative text analysis stakeholder interviews proposed conducted using GABEK® methodology identify recurring themes stakeholders' destinations. aims represent...

Popular culture tourism encompasses a range of expressive practices that attract fans traveling to destinations associated with their fandom pursuit. However, scholarship on this multifaceted phenomenon is today over-fragmented and obscured by separate disciplinary agendas priorities. We argue the scope breadth popular calls for its interdisciplinary treatment as distinct field. Through scoping literature review, paper identifies foundational elements conceptual ontological roots, extracting...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the suitability photo-sharing platforms, such as Flickr, extract relevant knowledge on tourists’ spatial movement and point interest (POI) visitation behaviour compare most prominent clustering approaches identify POIs in various application scenarios. Design/methodology/approach study, first, extracts photo metadata from upload time, location user. Then, uploads are assigned latent by density-based applications with noise (DBSCAN) k -means...

Purpose Previous studies on tourism input-output (IO) primarily focus a single year’s snapshot or utilize outdated IO coefficients. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the multi-period development regional capacities and its influence magnitude industry’s economic contribution. highlights importance applying up-to-date coefficients avoid estimation bias typically found in previous tourism’s Design/methodology/approach For period 2008-2014, national tables are regionalized estimate direct...

ABSTRACTThis study estimates the effects of advertising on international tourism demand for leading Swedish mountain destination Åre. In contrast to previous studies, which primarily focus at a national or sectorial level, this research is conducted level. The considers price levels destinations and tourists' income as determinants demand. However, following theories research, dominance market power function (i.e. product differentiation) information transparency) are identified major...

The continuing development and growth of the Internet imply that business customers perceive provides them with some kind value. has also seen an increasing importance user-generated content utilisation as a social medium. In this study concept customer value, based on typology consumer value (Holbrook, 1994; 1999) hierarchy model (Woodruff & Gardial, 1996; Woodruff, 1997), is used to identify dimensions expressions what customer-perceived in travel tourism web sites how it created....