Approaches to GPS-survey of tourist movements within a North Sea island destination

Niels Christian Nielsen; Henrik Harder; Nerius Tradisauskas; Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt

Approaches to GPS-survey of tourist movements within a North Sea island destination

Niels Christian Nielsen
, Henrik Harder
, Nerius Tradisauskas
, Bodil Stilling Blichfeldt

University of Southern Denmark

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Abstract

Recent developments in information and positioning technologies, converging into portable devices offer new opportunities not only for tracking tourist movements, but also for interactive description and development of experiences. In this paper, we asses the usefulness of a small GPS-GSM device to track tourist movements on a Danish island dominated by summer house tourism, supported by a central database and Internet-based visualisation. A number of methodological challenges and their possible solutions are discussed. Of equal importance to the technical issues, found to work as expected, was the psychological and ethical issues related to recruiting participants and make them share their impressions and provide information on their in-situ decisions.

Original language	English
Journal	e-Review of Tourism Research
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1941-5842
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	ENTER 2010: International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism - Lugano, Switzerland Duration: 10 Feb 2010 → 12 Feb 2010 Conference number: 17

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Conference	ENTER 2010: International Conference on Information Technology and Travel & Tourism
Number	17
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Lugano
Period	10/02/10 → 12/02/10

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