Potential applications of cellular phone systems for measuring and modeling tourist movement

• Autorzy: Alejziak W.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Measuring the volume and describing the structure of tourist movement seems be one of the crucial tasks of subjects responsible for creating and executing tourism policy. Information on the above-mentioned parameters constitutes the fundamental factor for tourism management at all levels of state administration (i.e. national, regional, local). Its importance manifests itself not only in current activities but also (or possibly foremost) in programming and planning tourism development. What seems to be of crucial importance in both latter processes is creating a proper volume, as well as dimensional, temporal and generic structure, optimal for a particular area (i.e. a city, county, province, country). Generating and executing tourism policy in different spatial arrangements, in particular modeling tourist movement, requires reliable data. Meanwhile, insofar applied methods of statistical registration or other related ways of measuring tourist movement prove imperfect, hence affecting negatively the quality of tourism planning. As a matter of fact, planning activities in tourism sector are frequently criticized both in the countries with highly developed tourism and those still aspiring to such a high-profile status. The paper presents basic assumptions of Telephone System for Cellular Analysis of Tourist Movement (TelSKART©), which is an innovative method of measuring the volume of tourist movement, using second and third generation of cellular phone technology (i.e. GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications, and UMTS – Universal Mobile Telecommunications System).

Słowa kluczowe

EN

tourist movement; measurement; TelSKART©; mobile phones; GSM

• Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum ; Index Copernicus Sp. z o.o.
• Czasopismo: Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: Vol. 7, no. 1
• Strony: 63--66
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 11 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Alejziak W.

• Chair of Tourism Economy University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow

Bibliografia

• 1. Alejziak W. (2009): Regionalne badania ruchu turystycznego i konsumpcji usług turystycznych w Polsce: stan obecny i perspektywy rozwoju (Regional research of tourist movement and consumption of tourist services: present status and perspectives of development). Work published at: http://wtir.awf.krakow.pl/attachments/148_Ekspertyza%20dla%20POT.pdf
• 2. Alejziak W. (2009): TelSKART© - nowa metoda badań oraz pomiaru wielkości ruchu turystycznego (TelSKART© - innovative research method of measuring tourist movement volume), [in:] „Folia Turistica”, Vol. 21, pp. 95-144.
• 3. Bolechowski P. (2009): Zakopane: policzą turystów (Zakopane: Counting Tourists), [in:] “Gazeta Krakowska” of 11.09.2009.
• 4. Buhalis D., O’Connor P. (2005): Information Communication Technology Revolutionizing Tourism, [in:] Tourism Recreation Research, Vol. 30(3), pp. 7-16.
• 5. Gałażewski A. (2001): Modele rzeczywistości geograficznej a modele danych przestrzennych. Work published at: http://zk.gik.pw.edu.pl/Prace/Generalia/Glazewski_20060519.pdf
• 6. Kozłowska A. (2009): Systemy komunikacyjne (Communications systems), p. 1-4. Work published at: http://www.stud.pwr.wroc.pl/Stare/Systemy_tel/wyklad_2_1.pdf
• 7. Nawrocki P. (2007): Systemy mobilne. Telefonia komórkowa (Mobile systems. Cellular telephones). Work published at: http://home.icslab.agh.edu.pl/~grex/wyklady/mobilne/SM04-Technologie_sieci_komorkowych_NoRestriction.pdf
• 8. Orłowski A. (2007): Charakterystyka metod służących do określania lokalizacji abonentów w sieciach GSM i UMTS (Methods of cellphon users location in GSM and UMTS networks – description and analysis), Państwowy Instytut Łączności, Warszawa, czerwiec 2007. Work published at: http://www.mi.gov.pl/files/0/1786946/SP_II_3__etap_1.pdf
• 9. Paczuski T. (2009): Jak działają sieci komórkowe?, [w:] Komputer Świat z 30 września 2009. Work published at: http://www.komputerswiat.pl/jak-to-dziala/2008/02/sieci-komorkowe.aspx
• 10. Xia J., Arrowsmith C. (2005) Managing Scale Issues in Spatio-Temporal Movement of Tourists Modelling, [in:] Zerger A., and Argent RM. (eds) MODSIM 2005 – International Congress of Modelling and Simulation, “Modelling and Simulation of Society of Australia and New Zeland, pp. 170-176. Work published at: http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim05/proceedings/papers/xia.pdf
• 11. Ibid., and also: http://www.polskatimes.pl/gazetakrakowska/podhale/nowytarg/161246,zakopane-policza-turystow,id,t.html (9.11.2009).