Noam Shoval, Michal Isaacson

Tourist Mobility and Advanced Tracking Technologies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent developments in tracking technologies have opened up new possibilities for research into tourist spatial behavior. This book examines the various technologies available to track pedestrians and motorized vehicles as well as the moral, ethical and legal issues arising from the utilization of data thus obtained.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780415963527
• ISBN-10: 0415963524
• Artikelnr.: 27869759

Autorenporträt

Noam Shoval is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Hebrew University. Michal Isaacson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Hebrew University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Section 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues of
Tourists' Spatial Behavior 2. Theoretical Aspects of Tourists' Spatial
Behavior 3. Methodological Aspects of Measurement and Visualization of
Tourists' Spatial Behavior Section 2: Available Tracking Technologies 4.
Land-based Tracking Technologies 5. Satellite-based Tracking Technologies
Section 3: Application of Tracking Technologies to Research on Tourist
Mobility 6. Methodological Challenges 7. Understanding the Tourist 8.
Understanding the Destination 9. Ethical Questions and the Tracking of
Tourists Section 4: Concluding Thoughts 10. Conclusion. Appendix:
Integrating Data Obtained from Tracking Devices into Geographic Information
Systems