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Identifying tourist-functional relations of urban places through Foursquare from Barcelona

GeoJournal, 2021-02, Vol.86 (1), p.1-18 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Identifying tourist-functional relations of urban places through Foursquare from Barcelona
Author: Yang, Liya ; Durarte, Carlos Marmolejo
Subjects: Barcelona ; Big data ; Catalunya ; Categories ; Centroids ; Closeness ; Environmental Management ; Foursquare ; Functional relation ; Functional relationships ; Geography ; Hotels ; Hotels & motels ; Human Geography ; LBSN ; Measurement ; Restaurants ; Social Sciences ; Sociologia urbana ; Sociology, Urban ; Spain ; Spatial distribution ; Tourism ; Tourism and city planning ; Tourist attractions ; Tourist flows ; Tourists ; Transportation ; Turisme i urbanisme ; Urban areas ; Urban usage ; Urbanisme ; Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
Is Part Of: GeoJournal, 2021-02, Vol.86 (1), p.1-18
Description: Previous research has mainly focused on spatial relations among tourist attractions in urban areas. However, few studies have examined the functional relations between tourist attractions and other urban places (i.e. the flows of tourists between them). Therefore, this study focuses on quantification of the tourist-functional relations among Places of Interest (POIs) using Foursquare data from Barcelona. This represents an effort to highlight the important functional closeness between different types of POIs whose significance is not usually obvious from their spatial relationships. In order to quantify these functional relationships, this paper classifies Foursquare POIs into 22 categories according to their different usages and constructs a matrix of usage-flows to depict the connections among these different usages. A model of interaction values is introduced to describe the strength of relations and identify the dominant tourist usages. The results confirm that the functional centroids differ from these spatial distributions which only focused around tourist attractions. In addition to tourist attractions, places in the categories of Restaurants, Transport, and Hotels play important roles in functional relationship of tourism. The typical urban usages of tourists can be distinguished by the interaction values between these categories. Our model provides a practical method to quantify the interlinkage of usages of POIs based on tourist flows. In particular, LBSN data has potential as a method to observe the tourist-functional relations among places.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0343-2521
EISSN: 1572-9893
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-019-10055-9
Source: Recercat
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Identifying tourist-functional relations of urban places through Foursquare from Barcelona

Springer Nature B.V. 2019 ;GeoJournal is a copyright of Springer, (2019). All Rights Reserved. ;Springer Nature B.V. 2019. ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0343-2521 ;EISSN: 1572-9893 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10708-019-10055-9

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