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In recent years, many tourist activity surveys using GPS devices have been conducted, but the survey methodology needs still to be improved. One critical problem is that we can know where tourists visit and how long they stay there, but not what they actually do there. Thus, we investigated the relationship between tourists’ activities recoded by a video camera and their GPS logs. The result shows that the location history of a tourist itself is not sufficient for estimating how long he/she enjoys each attraction, and his/her walking speed seems critical for this estimation.
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Kawase, J., Kurata, Y., Yabe, N. (2012). When and Where Tourists are Viewing Exhibitions: Toward Sophistication of GPS-Assisted Tourist Activity Surveys. In: Fuchs, M., Ricci, F., Cantoni, L. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2012. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1142-0_36
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