Space and Time Analysis of Tourist Movements using
Jianhong Cecilia Xia, Panlop Zeephongsekul · 2009
Tourist movement is a complex process, but it provides very useful information for park managers and tourist operators. This paper aims to establish a sound methodology for modelling the spatial and temporal movement of tourists, with the objectives of understanding, predicting, controlling and optimising the decisions made by them as they go about choosing the attractions they want to visit.. Tourist movements, in this paper, are modelled as discrete processes between specific tourist locations, which could be located some distance apart. A Semi-Markov process has a Markov chain and a renewal process embedded within its structure. Therefore, the Semi-Markov chain can be used to understand the interaction of tourists with attractions as a sequence of movements over time, rather than their interaction with individual attractions.