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Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City

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  • Luis Encalada

    (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Inês Boavida-Portugal

    (Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, University of Groningen (RUG) P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands)

  • Carlos Cardoso Ferreira

    (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Jorge Rocha

    (Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract

As cities become increasingly complex, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) bring smartness into organisations and communities, contributing to a more competitive tourism destination, i.e., smart tourism destinations. Enhanced information access coupled with a new kind of tourists avid for online content and predisposed to share information on social media, allows for a better understanding of tourist behaviour regarding their spatial distribution in urban destinations. Thus, smart tourism portrays individuals as information makers, refining the available alternatives for tracking their location. Big data analytics is a technology with the potential to develop Smart City services. From the analysis of the spatial distribution of tourists in the city of Lisbon based on data collected from the ‘Panoramio’ social network, we identify the most popular places in the city in a context of tourist visits. This new data largely contributes to understanding the consumption of space within urban tourist destinations and therefore enables us to differentiate the overcrowded places from the ones with potential to grow. This allows decision-makers to imagine new ways of planning and managing towards a sustainable ‘smart’ future.

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  • Luis Encalada & Inês Boavida-Portugal & Carlos Cardoso Ferreira & Jorge Rocha, 2017. "Identifying Tourist Places of Interest Based on Digital Imprints: Towards a Sustainable Smart City," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(12), pages 1-19, December.
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