Exploring Tourists’ Food and Beverage Spots in an Urban Destination Using a Spatial–temporal Approach

Ioannis A. Nikas (), Athanasios Koutras, Alkiviadis Panagopoulos and Anastasios Vasileiadis
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Ioannis A. Nikas: University of Patras
Athanasios Koutras: University of Peloponnese
Alkiviadis Panagopoulos: University of Patras
Anastasios Vasileiadis: University of Patras

A chapter in Transcending Borders in Tourism Through Innovation and Cultural Heritage, 2022, pp 977-989 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An important part of planning a trip involves not only search for accommodation, but for food and beverage spots as well, to enhance the visitor’s travel experience, especially when the trip involves visits to major urban centers. The agony and/or joy of tourists to meet the desired destinations can be seen nowadays in the continuous and overwhelming number of posts of their exact geographical position whereabouts together with evaluations of the provided travel services, using social networks and photo-sharing applications. The process of capturing and evaluating the travel experience has now been integrated into the life cycle of a trip, whether it involves visiting a museum, the accommodation, or the meals and drinks during the day. In this work, a temporal-spatial methodology is proposed, based mainly on clustering methods, to analyze geo-tagged data related to potential food and beverage choices of visitors in major urban centers during their holidays. Our aim is to depict spatially and temporally tourists’ food and beverage preferences during their stay in a city. The proposed methodology is tested on data acquired from the city of Athens from the Flickr photo-sharing platform and the OpenStreetMap web services.

Keywords: Social media analytics; Spatial–temporal analysis; Cluster analysis; Flickr; OpenStreetMap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 C33 C38 C55 L83 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92491-1_58

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