Segmenting Tourist Flocking Behaviour Using a Dynamic Time Warping Approach

Pauline Borg, Szilvia Gyimothy Mørup-Petersen, Marina Toger

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Abstract

City planners and place marketers alike are keen to comprehend the character and consequences of short-term tourist mobility in popular destinations. Visitor crowds display a rich variety of self-organised behaviours, and their trajectories may follow distinctively different patterns (and less determined or effective itinerary choices) from those of locals. Despite the growing number of geolocational analyses of cruise tourists’ onshore movements and spatial distribution in different empirical settings (De Cantis et al. 2016; Sciortino et al. 2022; Toger et al. 2023), the conceptualisation of visitors’ intra-destination group-dynamic behaviour during movement still needs investigation. This paper aims at conceptualising and segmenting onshore trajectories of transit cruise visitors in order to better understand what drives flocking and side-tracking behaviour. How can we qualify the beaten track linking the highlights, and what explains those who seek out alternative paths? What are the attractors and deflectors that may shape the choice of itinerary?
We explore extant geolocational data collected in 2018-2019 among transit cruise passengers in Copenhagen. Individual itineraries derived from the GPS trackers are compared with a dynamic time warping method and combined with questionnaires aiming to identify commonalities and differences for a subsequent cluster analysis, developing further from Borg (2023) and Ferrante et al. (2019). The results are held up against earlier conceptualisations of flocking behaviour from tourism (Jaakson 1994), cognitive models of pedestrian behaviour (Moussaïd et al. 2011; and path modelling in consumptive spaces (Hui et al. 2009). The contributions of this work-in-progress paper may highlight new opportunities for post-pandemic crowd management in port cities.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2023
Antal sider1
StatusUdgivet - 2023
BegivenhedEuropean Tourism Research in the Age of Sustainability and Technology - Modul University, Vienna, Østrig
Varighed: 6 sep. 20236 sep. 2023
https://ef.huji.ac.il/event/international-conference-european-tourism-research-age-sustainability-and-technology

Konference

KonferenceEuropean Tourism Research in the Age of Sustainability and Technology
LokationModul University
Land/OmrådeØstrig
ByVienna
Periode06/09/202306/09/2023
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Emneord

  • Cruise tourist
  • Onshore mobility
  • Group-dynamic behavior
  • Beaten track
  • Dynamic time warping

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