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Preis, Tobias, Botta, Federico and Moat, Helen Susannah (2020) Sensing global tourism numbers with millions of publicly shared online photographs. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52 (3). pp. 471-477. 0308518X1987277. doi:10.1177/0308518X19872772
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19872772
Abstract
In our increasingly connected world, individuals produce continuous streams of data through their constant interactions with the Internet. This data is opening up opportunities to measure human behaviour that was previously time consuming or expensive to capture. Here, we explore whether data from online photographs can be used to estimate travel statistics on a global scale. We draw on the locations attached to 69 million publicly shared photographs to infer the global travel patterns of almost half a million users of the photo-sharing platform Flickr. We find that our photo-based estimates of tourist arrival statistics for the G7 countries Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States correlate with the corresponding official statistics released by those countries. Our results highlight the potential for vast volumes of online data to inform the generation of timely, low-cost indicators of the state of society. We discuss practical considerations that remain before this methodology could be used in the production of official statistics.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TR Photography |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social media , Tourism, Online social networks -- Communication, Human behavior -- Data processing, Image processing -- Digital techniques -- Data processing, Visual communication -- Social aspects, Photography -- Digital techniques, Tourists -- Statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications Ltd. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0308-518X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 May 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 471-477 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 0308518X1987277 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0308518X19872772 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||||||||
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