Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data
For a long time, tourism statistics were the only reliable source of information on tourism mobility. Tourism statistics are inadequate for the analysis of tourist mobility within state borders and across Schengen Borders without using registered accommodations. Big data offers the opportunity to ga...
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2023-06-01
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| author | Gábor Michalkó Márton Prorok Attila Csaba Kondor Noémi Ilyés Tünde Szabó |
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| description | For a long time, tourism statistics were the only reliable source of information on tourism mobility. Tourism statistics are inadequate for the analysis of tourist mobility within state borders and across Schengen Borders without using registered accommodations. Big data offers the opportunity to gain a better understanding of tourism movements, for example, same-day tourist flows in metropolitan areas. Here, we introduce the concept of the satellite traveller to more effectively investigate the nature of tourism between the large city and its surroundings. As tourists communicate via cellular devices, the use of mobile phones offers an opportunity for researchers to explore the mobility pattern of tourists. In this article, we discuss the specificities of mobility in Hungary by SIM card users registered in foreign countries. The analysis is based on the Telekom database. We seek to answer the question to what extent the information from the satellite tourists’ mobile phone use can help to understand their movements and to identify frequented places less commonly accounted for in tourism statistics. The most important findings of our investigation are (1) the confirmation of former knowledge about spatial characteristics of same-day tourist flows in the Budapest Metropolitan Region, (2) the insight that far away settlements are also visited by satellite travellers, and (3) the methodological limitations of mobile phone cellular data for tourism mobility analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f78eb84bd6e400a8bd3754357b3f8752023-06-30T12:06:23ZengResearch Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungarian Geographical Bulletin2064-50312064-51472023-06-0172216317810.15201/hungeobull.72.2.59719Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular dataGábor Michalkó0Márton Prorok1Attila Csaba Kondor2Noémi Ilyés3Tünde Szabó4Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (MTA Centre of Excellence), Budapest, Hungary ; University of Pannonia, Veszprém, HungaryGeographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, HungaryGeographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, HungaryCorvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, HungaryGEOInsight Ltd., Budapest, HungaryFor a long time, tourism statistics were the only reliable source of information on tourism mobility. Tourism statistics are inadequate for the analysis of tourist mobility within state borders and across Schengen Borders without using registered accommodations. Big data offers the opportunity to gain a better understanding of tourism movements, for example, same-day tourist flows in metropolitan areas. Here, we introduce the concept of the satellite traveller to more effectively investigate the nature of tourism between the large city and its surroundings. As tourists communicate via cellular devices, the use of mobile phones offers an opportunity for researchers to explore the mobility pattern of tourists. In this article, we discuss the specificities of mobility in Hungary by SIM card users registered in foreign countries. The analysis is based on the Telekom database. We seek to answer the question to what extent the information from the satellite tourists’ mobile phone use can help to understand their movements and to identify frequented places less commonly accounted for in tourism statistics. The most important findings of our investigation are (1) the confirmation of former knowledge about spatial characteristics of same-day tourist flows in the Budapest Metropolitan Region, (2) the insight that far away settlements are also visited by satellite travellers, and (3) the methodological limitations of mobile phone cellular data for tourism mobility analysis.https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/9719big datametropolitan regionsame-day visitunconventional tourismbudapest |
| spellingShingle | Gábor Michalkó Márton Prorok Attila Csaba Kondor Noémi Ilyés Tünde Szabó Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data Hungarian Geographical Bulletin big data metropolitan region same-day visit unconventional tourism budapest |
| title | Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| title_full | Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| title_fullStr | Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| title_short | Mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| title_sort | mobility patterns of satellite travellers based on mobile phone cellular data |
| topic | big data metropolitan region same-day visit unconventional tourism budapest |
| url | https://ojs.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/9719 |
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