%0 Thesis
%9 Bachelor
%A Bekker, R.
%D 2018
%F theses_frw:1490
%T Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of Tourism in Barcelona using Social Media
%U https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1490/
%X In this thesis spatial and temporal patterns of tourists in Barcelona are explored. Barcelona being a popular tourist destination with a high annual number of tourists, tensions in the city are created. Therefore, planners and policy-makers need to gain insights about where tourists are in the urban environment to be able to improve it in a possible sustainable way. By extracting metadata from social media platform Flickr such as: times, dates and coordinates, insights for planners and policy-makers can be created by visualizing spatial patterns and analyzing the temporal distributions. This method delivered a dataset with lots of possibilities for future research and opportunities to study more in depth the tourists’ temporal and spatial patterns in Barcelona.