Modeling tourist itineraries in heritage cities. Routes around the Old District of Girona
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2008.06.033Keywords:
heritage cities, tourist´s behaviour, tracking tourists, direct observation, urban routesAbstract
Tourists do not follow random behavior in heritage cities, but they are consciously or uncons- ciously guided by socially constructed itineraries. This article studies the shaping of these itineraries in a heritage city (Girona), using the direct observation methodology during the visit (following the tourists from a prudent distance and gathering all the information about their visits) and the conventional ques- tionnaire at the end of the visit. It also establishes which the sociodemographic, environmental and in- formative factors are that explain this behavior. The simultaneous use of the observation method and a questionnaire was found to be a useful technique for analyzing tourists’ behavior and the factors that explain this behavior.
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