Tourist mobility and advanced tracking technologies /
Noam Shoval and Michal Isaacson.
- xx, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in tourism; 19 .
- Routledge advances in tourism ; 19. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Available tracking technologies -- 4. Land-based tracking technologies -- 5. Satellite-based tracking technologies -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. Concluding thoughts -- 10. Conclusion.