Factors affecting time spent visiting heritage city areas

Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption is critical to better managing their impact on the city, and creating a sustainable city tour...

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Autores: martinez-garcia, esther, Raya, Josep Maria, Galí, Núria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:TecnoCampus
Repositorio:Repositori Digital del TecnoCampus
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.tecnocampus.cat:20.500.12367/2526
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12367/2526
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Time consumption
Duration
Historic attractions
Sustainable heritage city
Sustainable tourism planning
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Sumario:Urban tourism is growing fast, and in many cities visitor influx tends to concentrate in historic urban centers. When there are large numbers of visitors, deepening the knowledge on visitor time consumption is critical to better managing their impact on the city, and creating a sustainable city tourism destination. This has generated an increasing interest in the micro-spatial and temporal dimensions of tourist behavior in city tourism research and planning. This article focuses on modelling the factors affecting the duration of visits to each heritage attraction, and to the whole visit to the heritage city. [...]