Tourist mobility and advanced tracking technologies /
[Book]
Noam Shoval and Michal Isaacson.
New York :
Routledge,
2010.
1 online resource
Routledge advances in tourism ;
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 2, 2009).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Theoretical aspects of tourists' spatial behavior -- Methodological aspects of measurement and visualization of tourists' spatial behavior -- Land-based tracking technologies -- Satellite-based tracked technologies -- Methodological challenges -- Understanding the tourist -- Understanding the destination -- Ethical questions and the tracking of tourists -- Conclusion.
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Recent developments in tracking technologies have opened up new possibilities for research into tourist spatial behavior. This book examines the various technologies available to track pedestrians and motorized vehicles as well as the moral, ethical and legal issues arising from the utilization of data thus obtained.
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Tourist mobility and advanced tracking technologies.