Excursion Behavior Research Articles

Casual Analysis on the relationship between excursion behavior and Information usage in Fuji Five Lakes Area

Casual Analysis on the relationship between excursion behavior and Information usage in Fuji Five Lakes Area

Casual Analysis on the Relationship between Excursion Behavior and Information Usage in Fuji Five Lakes Area

Casual Analysis on the Relationship between Excursion Behavior and Information Usage in Fuji Five Lakes Area

On Relationship between information for the use of tourists and their excursion patterns & activity duration

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the information uses on excursion activity patterns. The survey are conducted at the different types of sightseeing area: Fuji-Five Lakes area and Arashiyama area. First, two data sets from these surveys are empirically used for a comparative analysis to identify the basic characteristics of excursion patterns. Second, focusing on the Fuji-Five Lakes area data set the information use patterns by excursion pattern are analyzed by using the concept of timespace prism. Finally, the duration model for Kyoto-Arashiyama excursion behaviors is developed to evaluate the effect f the information use on the length of time-duration at a stop in a chain. This model indicates that the information uses significantly determine the parameters concerning the duration-time distribution.

A Study on the Relationship between Tourists' Information Usage and Excursion Behaviors in Fuji Five Lakes

A Study on the Relationship between Tourists' Information Usage and Excursion Behaviors in Fuji Five Lakes

An Analysis of Information Necessity Related to the Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Sightseeing Excursion Behaviors: Toward Development of the Regional ITS

Recently, many of vigorous ITS researches have been expanded into transportation planning areas. These researches, however, have not established their systematic methodologies for transportation problem in sightseeing areas as a regional ITS. To develop ITS in sightseeing places, this paper proposes an analysis of infonnation needs considering timing, content, and media for decision-making on sightseeing excursion behavior. In the prior step to develop ITS in tourist areas, there are problems to extract basic issues in tourist excursion behavior and needs for tourist information. A case study is dealing with analysis of tourist informationeeds based on timespace characteristics in Mt Fuji area.

A Study on the Relationship between Tourists' Information Usage and Excursion Behaviors in Fuji Five Lakes

A Study on the Relationship between Tourists' Information Usage and Excursion Behaviors in Fuji Five Lakes

UNDERSTANDING SCHOOL EXCURSION PLANNING AND CONSTRAINTS: AN AUSTRALIAN CASE STUDY

According to Ritchie, Carr, and Cooper, school excursion tourism is a relatively underresearched and poorly understood segment of the tourism industry, particularly with regard to its size and specific nature. Yet both domestic and international school excursions provide an important market for attractions, tour operators, and accommodation providers. Although school excursions are not a major economic force for attractions they can provide positive word of mouth and encourage future visitation for both students and parents, and can also support off-season visitation. Cooper notes the need to understand the school excursion market, including their motivations, needs, constraints, and travel behavior. This article begins by outlining the potential of school excursions before focusing on domestic school excursions through discussing a study conducted on the school excursion market in Australia. A total of 807 schools nationwide were surveyed in 1998–99 to examine their school excursion behavior, including their motivations, constraints, and perceptions of Canberra (the National Capital of Australia). Forty-six percent of schools had a dedicated school excursion planner, and while the major motives for school excursions were educational, they were closely followed by cost-effective destinations, a variety of destination attractions, and the ability of attractions to cater specifically to school groups. A total of 74% of schools note that funding is an influencing factor for school excursion planning and note specific strategies that could attract future school visitation to destinations. The results indicate that understanding the school excursion market is important in formulating strategies to attract this market and to provide quality experiences for students and teachers. The findings may be of interest to other destinations seeking to attract school excursions, including national capital cities and destinations with educational attractions. Copyright © 2004 Cognizant Comm. Corp.

A study on a Simulation Model of Tourists' Excursion Behaviors Considering the order of Visiting and an Evaluation method as whole model system

The focus of this study is in two points. One is constructing a simulation model of tourists' excursion behavior considering scheduling. The other is proposal of an evaluation method for the activity simulation model. To explain the characteristics of the touring behavior, a model of activity sequence was developed. In this model, it is assumed that tourists choose a combination of visit areas and then select the first and the last spot independently. We developed a simulation model for whole tourist behavior using other several models and showed its result. We also develop an evaluation indicator for the model system. This indicator is based on the reenactment of activity patterns. We concluded the model system we proposed could simulate the behavior well under a specific situation.

A Satisficing Model of a Set of Visiting Areas in Sightseeing Excursion Behavior

To explain the characteristics of the tourists' area selection, an activity-based model is developed. In this model, it is assumed that tourists determine a combination of visiting areas by stepwise processes, until the utility of the combination will be over his/ her level of the satisfaction. The parameter estimates of the model suggest that:(i) car users' area selection tend to be wider but the number of the visiting area are smaller than public transport users, and (ii) repeaters' area selection tend to be wider and the number of the visiting area are larger than first visitors.

A Stepwise Model of a Set of Visiting Areas in Sightseeing Excursion Behavior

To explain the characteristics of the tourists' area selection, an activity-based model is developed. In this model, it is assumed that tourists determine a combination of visiting areas by stepwise processes, until the utility of the combination will be over his/ her level of the satisfaction. The parameter estimates of the model suggest that:(i) car users' area selection tend to be wider but the number of the visiting area are smaller than public transport users, and (ii) repeaters' area selection tend to be wider and the number of the visiting area are larger than first visitors.

An 84‐kyr paleomagnetic record from the sediments of Lake Baikal, Siberia

We have conducted a paleomagnetic study of sediment cores obtained from the Selenga prodelta region of Lake Baikal, Russia. This record, which spans approximately the last 84 kyr, contributes to a better understanding of the nature of geomagnetic field behavior in Siberia and is a useful correlation and dating tool. We demonstrate that the Lake Baikal sediments are recording variations in the geomagnetic field. The directional record displays secular variation behavior with a geomagnetic excursion at 20 ka and additional excursions appearing as large‐amplitude secular variation at 41, 61, and 67 ka. Smoothing of the geomagnetic excursion behavior occurs in Lake Baikal sediments owing to the intermediate sedimentation rate (13 cm kyr−1). The Lake Baikal relative paleointensity record correlates to absolute paleointensity data for the last 10 kyr and to relative paleointensity records from the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean for the last 84 kyr. This correlation suggests a strong global (i.e., dipole) component to these records and further supports the reliability of sediments as recorders of relative geomagnetic paleointensity. We show that a relative geomagnetic intensity stratigraphy has a potential resolution of 7 kyr by correlating continental and marine records. The geomagnetic intensity stratigraphy helps constrain the age of the difficult to date Lake Baikal sediments.

Middle and upper atmosphere radar observations of ionospheric electric fields

Middle and upper atmosphere (MU) radar observations of electric fields over the period September 1986 to January 1991 are reported in the form of time‐of‐day variations for several different seasonal and solar activity cases. The perpendicular north velocity has on average a smooth and distinct northward excursion from 0600‐1500 LT followed by a period of constant southward velocity until midnight and then a slow linear change to merge with the daytime northward excursion period. This excursion feature is small in summer and enhanced in winter but, seasonally averaged, has only small solar activity variation. The individual seasonal averages show afternoon/evening excursion behavior apparently tied to the time of sunset. The perpendicular east velocity is characterized by a major eastward excursion in the evening and a minor eastward excursion in the morning, with a tendency to level off or form a slight additional local eastward excursion after midnight. The evening excursion is enhanced during winter and at high solar activity, and the postmidnight excursion is enhanced during summer. The morning excursion has no comparable counterpart in existing electric field models or data averages from Arecibo or Jicamarca. We suggest that this may be a semidiurnal component that evidences enhanced propagation of the semidiurnal tide at the location of the MU radar. The maximum daily amplitudes and the time‐of‐day and solar activity trends at the Arecibo and MU radar locations have strong resemblances, but the seasonal trends in the MU data, the Arecibo data, and existing radar models disagree strongly.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMERCIAL DISTRICT EVALUATION TECHNIQUE BASED ON EXCURSION BEHAVIOR IN A CITY CENTER

DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMERCIAL DISTRICT EVALUATION TECHNIQUE BASED ON EXCURSION BEHAVIOR IN A CITY CENTER

Growing Independence, Conflict and Learning in Mother-Infant Relations in Free-Ranging Chimpanzees

Growing Independence, Conflict and Learning in Mother-Infant Relations in Free-Ranging Chimpanzees

Collisional effects on coherent nonlinear wave–particle interactions at cyclotron harmonics

When particle orbits are trapped very near a cyclotron harmonic resonance, the quasilinear concept of weakly perturbed, uncorrelated passages through resonance breaks down, and nonlinear effects become important. In numerical as well as analytic studies, it is demonstrated that relativistic detuning of the resonance can be important for electrons even at low initial energies (∼20 eV) and that coupling to perturbed parallel motion can lead to strong interactions for values of the turning point where the wave frequency differs from a harmonic multiple of the bounce-averaged gyrofrequency by an integral multiple of the bounce frequency. The resultant motion is described by large periodic energy excursions for which small-angle Coulomb collisions or other randomization processes are required to realize net heating. Analytic formulas are derived describing the energy excursion behavior and heating in a mildly relativistic limit. Also, a Monte Carlo numerical model of the collisional effects on the orbits has been employed to study electron heating at the second-harmonic cyclotron resonance and to test the analytic results. In certain regimes of collisionality, a strong enhancement over quasilinear heating has been found.