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#Tourism: The Influence Of Social Media On Visitor Experiences In Churchill, Manitoba, Katherine Ann Fowler

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.

International Collaboration In Destination Marketing: A Case Study Of The Vanilla Islands, Émilie Bourdages, Marc-Antoine Vachon

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Time Of Day On Traveler Website Conversions, Maryse Côté-Hamel

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

Through the analysis of the Quebec City Tourism website, the effect of the time of day of the visits on visitor conversions, which represent the attainment of specific objectives, will be investigated.

Spatio-Temporal Data In Tourism Research, Dmitry Shkolnik

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

The work presented here highlights the efforts at Destination Canada to use user-generated online content to learn about tourist movement patterns, activity, and relationships among groups of connected destinations. Using a massive open-data source of photographic metadata from the Flickr photograph sharing platform, we extract time-stamps and geographic coordinates from photo metadata to analyze activity and movement patterns of international visitors to Canada.

This analysis allows us to protect privacy while identifying rich and interesting patterns of tourist activity at both national and urban scales. The data further allows us to generate constructed tourist itineraries using extracted spatio-temporal data for …

Public Perceptions Of The Favelas Of Rio De Janeiro, Claudia G. Green Phd, Adnan Dhiyan Mba

TTRA Canada 2016 Conference

No abstract provided.