TY  - THES
Y1  - 2018///
ID  - theses_frw1490
A1  - Bekker, R.
M1  - bachelor
UR  - https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/1490/
AV  - public
TI  - Exploring spatial and temporal patterns of Tourism in Barcelona using Social Media
N2  - 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.
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