Cycling in Tibet: An analysis of tourists’ spatiotemporal behavior and infrastructure
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2022
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Elservier
Abstract
Cycling tourism has grown in popularity worldwide, motivating its inclusion in the development strategies of
tourism organizations. This paper builds an analysis model based on spatial analysis and Empirical Mode
Decomposition, providing a data-driven way to utilize GPS cycling trajectory data to analyze the spatiotemporal
behavior of Chinese cycling tourists using a case study example of the Tibet Autonomous Region. The results
show that: (1) The fluctuation of the number of cycling trajectories in Tibet presents multi-modal characteristics,
corresponding to fluctuations in China’s tourism industry and economy; (2) Cycling tourists in Tibet prefer to use
national roads (arguably due to the safety of the road infrastructure and the availability of supporting tourism
infrastructure); (3) Cycling tourism is highly concentrated in and around the popular attractions of Tibet. The
presented data and methods help to understand the spatiotemporal behavior of cycling tourists, which is of great
significance for tourism management.
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Tourism Management 88 (2022) 104418
Keywords
Cycling tourists,GPS trajectory data,Spatiotemporal behavior,Fluctuation characteristics,Tibet