GPS, Smartphones, and the Future of Tourism Research

摘要: The ubiquitous access to positioning technology such as GPS and smartphones has provided a large volume of extremely accurate behavioral data in time space, thus opening up new, previously unfeasible, lines inquiry. These technologies have enhanced the capacity visitors real-time on their devices through web browser enable receiving evaluating location based information while touring destination. This chapter presents an overview recent tourism research that employed track tourists map spatial behavior within tourist begins with introduction its embedded capability systematically collect mobility patterns. smartphone revolution allowing researchers record analyze individuals' psychological, physiological, activity self-report questionnaires sensors is presented. obvious question follows from here type analytical platforms allows visualization, mining, modeling "big data," which were collected these tracking devices. Ethical questions are then discussed highlight issues privacy participants well obligation conform certain moral ethical principles. concludes new will complement, add to, enrich findings more traditional tools. However, analysis bigger samples over longer periods across geographic scale significant challenges for future.