Understanding Tourist Destination Choices From Geo-Tagged Tweets

Abstract

Tourism related travels have significant impacts on transportation infrastructures, especially in large tourist attractions such as Florida. It is very expensive to collect individual travel data of a reasonable number of tourists traveling over a large region. Ubiquitous use of social media allows us to collect tourist travel data at a large scale in a cost effective way. This paper presents an analysis of tourist destination choices with longitudinal travel data collected from Twitter. From a collection of geo-tagged tweets, we have filtered out a reliable sample and identified tourists using a data mining approach. Then we find the tourists' destinations inside Florida. We have created a sequence of visited locations and applied a Conditional Random Field (CRF) model to predict the type of a tourists' next destination. The proposed model utilizes the features extracted from tweet posted time and location types. The feature set can be expanded by incorporating content-based features without violating the assumptions of CRF. The data collection steps and results derived from this study will be significantly useful for building an individual-level travel behavior model for tourists using social media data.

Publication Date

12-7-2018

Publication Title

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volume

2018-November

Number of Pages

3391-3396

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2018.8569237

Socpus ID

85060498297 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85060498297

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