An examination of tourist arrivals dynamics using short-term time series data: a space-time cluster approach

• Autores: Dogan Gursoy, Anna Maria Parroco, Raffaele Scuderi
• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 19, Nº. 4, 2013, págs. 761-777
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Italian tourist areas (circoscrizioni turistiche) through a cluster analysis of short time series. The technique is an adaptation of the functional data analysis approach developed by Abraham et al (2003), which combines spline interpolation with k-means clustering. The findings indicate the presence of two patterns (increasing and stable) averagely characterizing groups of territories. Moreover, tests of spatial contiguity suggest the presence of 'space�time clusters'; that is, areas in the same 'time cluster' are also spatially contiguous. These findings appear to be more robust in particular for those series characterized by an increasing trend.