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Tourism destinations: a network analysis of the Web space
No full textComplex networks have been extensively studied in the last few years by an interdisciplinary community of researchers with the objective of explaining their structural characteristics, functions and dynamic evolution. This paper proposes an original quantitative approach to the study of tourism destinations. It aims at examining how network thinking can help in understanding the interactions between tourism stakeholders within a destination. Network analysis methods are used to compare two tourism destinations: the Fiji Islands and Elba, Italy. The major characteristics are measured, both from a static and a dynamic point of view. The results show that topological measurements can highlight the main structural features of the destination networks and of the underlying social and economic system and can provide a way to assess their evolutionary history
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Advertising and word of mouth in tourism, a simulation study
No full textThis paper seeks to model the effect of word of mouth (WOM) on travel behavior. In particular it seeks to examine the effect of social networks on WOM amongst a population in the origin prior to travel. In this paper the effect of WOM is compared to that of paid advertising (ADV).
In other words we simulate a situation in which a tourism operator (a hotel manager for example) wishes to understand the possible effectiveness of traditional advertising as compared to word-of-mouth for promoting the services offered to a particular target market. By comparing the two situations (ADV and WOM) we can better understand the relative effect of these two methods and the higher effectiveness, at least in the short term, of WOM. For ADV, a more intense advertising effort is needed to reach the same level of informed people than for WOM. The findings show that for WOM, this level of effort is dependent on a moderate cohesion of the group. However, if the cohesion is either very low or very high, this proportion is attained only with a much higher expenditure of resources
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Offline and online disintermediation: an empirical investigation of national and international tourist flows to Sardinia
No full textResident’s perceptions of costs and benefits of ship tourism and their preferences toward different types of tourism development
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