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Modelling tourist itineraries in heritage cities: Routes around Old The District of Girona

Tourists do not follow random behavior in heritage cities, but they are consciously or unconsciously guided by socially constructed itineraries. This article studies the shaping of these itineraries in a heritage city (Girona), using the direct observation methodology during the visit (following the tourists from a prudent distance and gathering all the information about their visits) and the conventional questionnaire at the end of the visit. It also establishes which the sociodemographic, environmental and informative factors are that explain this behavior. The simultaneous use of the observation method and a questionnaire was found to be a useful technique for analyzing tourists’ behavior and the factors that explain this behavior

Universidad de La Laguna. Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

Author: Donaire, José Antonio
Galí Espelt, Núria
Abstract: Tourists do not follow random behavior in heritage cities, but they are consciously or unconsciously guided by socially constructed itineraries. This article studies the shaping of these itineraries in a heritage city (Girona), using the direct observation methodology during the visit (following the tourists from a prudent distance and gathering all the information about their visits) and the conventional questionnaire at the end of the visit. It also establishes which the sociodemographic, environmental and informative factors are that explain this behavior. The simultaneous use of the observation method and a questionnaire was found to be a useful technique for analyzing tourists’ behavior and the factors that explain this behavior
Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/231037
Language: eng
Publisher: Universidad de La Laguna. Instituto Universitario de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Subject: Turisme cultural -- Catalunya -- Girona
Heritage tourism -- Catalonia -- Girona
Title: Modelling tourist itineraries in heritage cities: Routes around Old The District of Girona
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repository: Recercat

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