Abstract
The tracking of tourist movements is an essential aspect in the management of sustainable tourist destinations. The current information and communication technologies provide innovative ways of collecting data on tourist movements, but it is still necessary to evaluate tools and methods of study for this challenge. At this point, mobile technologies are the best candidate for this task. Given the relevance of the topic, this paper proposes a mapping science analysis of publications on “movement of tourists” and “traceability.” It has been carried out in the two main sources WOS and SCOPUS. The term “traceability” is brought from industry and technology areas to be applied to the tourist movement/mobility tracking and management. The methodological scheme is based on a selection of search criteria with combinations of terms. The sources of specialized information in applied social sciences and technology were then selected. From there, the searches have been executed for their subsequent analysis in three stages—(I) relevance analysis filtering the results to obtain the most pertinent; (II) analysis of articles with similarity thematic, authors, journals or citations; (III) analysis of selected papers as input for the mapping analysis using Citespace. The automatic naming of clusters under the selected processing confirms that the analysis of movements is a valid scientific trend but research-oriented from the perspective of traceability is non-existent, so this approach is novel and complementary to existing ones and a potential contribution to knowledge about tourist movements. Finally, a set of methodological considerations and a classification of information capture tools are proposed. In this classification, mobile technology is the best option to enable tourist movement analysis.
Highlights
From the sustainability point of view, the study of tourist movements as part of tourist behavior allows us to understand the movement of people through space and time
The analysis carried out on the terms of tourist movement and traceability allows us to classify two thematic cores: the movement of tourists and the tracking methodologies, as shown graphically in Figure 9 where the terms are represented, Tourist, Geography, Time, Space and Movement, which are at the intersection of the two sets
The science mapping analysis has allowed the identification of the studies that have so far been developed around the analysis of the movements of the tourists as part of tourist behavior, and to trace the studies that have applied the concept of traceability to the tourism
Summary
From the sustainability point of view, the study of tourist movements as part of tourist behavior allows us to understand the movement of people through space and time This concept is currently of high interest as a potential income for planning and control and to allow better optimization of their carrying capacity and an improvement in the use of resources, facilitating both their management and their organization with its impact on sustainability. According to the work of Tiwari, Kaushik and Jagwani [1,2], the information obtained from the studies of tourist movements is useful for the analysis of carrying capacities, for traffic planning, as well as for locating advertising and planning itineraries The origin of this type of studies goes back to 1933 when Ogilvie envisioned the necessity of the study of tourist movement for future investigations in tourism. It was in the 1990s, when the concept and the space-time relationship in destinations began to be investigated
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