Spatiotemporal Analysis on Tourist Source of Gansu Province Based on Internet Search Data

doi:10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2015.00114

JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 857-864.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2015.00114

Spatiotemporal Analysis on Tourist Source of Gansu Province Based on Internet Search Data

Ma Wei^1,2, Zhang Yaonan¹, Min Yufang¹, Chen Yue^2,3

1. Gansu Engineering and Technology Research Center for Resources and Environment Data, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
3. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Received:2015-01-12 Revised:2015-04-17 Online:2016-05-20 Published:2016-05-20

Abstract

Abstract: The tourist number of a city or a scenic spot can be obtained by traditional statistical methods, while those methods could not gain the visitor number of the tourist source. In this paper, we related and mapped the data searched from Internet and the real tourists behavior, then fitted the keywords topped the list with real behaviors by free combination and non-linear polynomial. The results showed that the R² between the three phrases combination and the real tourists behavior was up to 0.999. Based on the results, we can deduce the number of tourists from 2011 to 2014 from 31 regions to Gansu province in china, except for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Besides, spatiotemporal data visualization of the tourist source in Gansu, anomaly detection of time and space data, and analysis of the spatiotemporal process were conducted. On the basis of the work above, the tourism department could better understand the source and destination of tourists, their travel patterns and their tendencies, so that the targeted and personalized decisions could be made.

Key words: Internet search data, tourist source, spatiotemporal analysis

CLC Number:

F590.1

Ma Wei, Zhang Yaonan, Min Yufang, Chen Yue. Spatiotemporal Analysis on Tourist Source of Gansu Province Based on Internet Search Data[J]. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2016, 36(3): 857-864.

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