A new European regional tourism typology based on hotel location patterns and geographical criteria

Filipe Batista e Silva, Ricardo Barranco, Paola Proietti, Cristian Pigaiani and Carlo Lavalle

Annals of Tourism Research, 2021, vol. 89, issue C

Abstract: The development of tourism typologies allows the identification of various dimensions of this important sector and can be used in tourism planning and management. In this study we developed a novel and systematic classification of European Union (EU) regions according to the predominant location of hotels, distinguishing among four distinct geographical areas: coastal zones, mountain and natural areas, cities and rural areas. For this purpose, we use Geographical Information Systems to integrate regional boundaries and the geographical zoning with a detailed dataset of hotel location and capacity. We then classified the EU regions into five typologies with the assistance of a hierarchical clustering algorithm. Further exploration of the results shows very distinct tourism profiles across the identified typologies in terms of tourism intensity, seasonality and other traits.

Keywords: Regional tourism typology; Big data; Coastal zones; Cities; Mountains; Rural (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2020.103077

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