Fonte: Revista Encontros Científicos - Tourism & Management Studies; Vol 11, No 1 (2015); 91-97
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Resumo: The way tourists move in space and time is part of their travelexperience while at the same time moulding it. In the urbancontext, tourists usually include multiple attractions on their intradestinationitineraries. Understanding tourists’ spatiotemporalbehaviour may help improve the quality of their experience as wellas provide useful information to the management of attractions anddestination. Nevertheless, tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour is acomplex phenomenon, influenced by numerous factors related toboth destination and tourists. Distance travelled from country oforigin has been empirically found as one of these factorsinfluencing tourist spatiotemporal behaviour. Visitors from moredistant residential locations invest more time and money in theirtrip; therefore, variety/multiple benefit seeking, risk anduncertainty reduction and economic rationalization may impacttheir time-space activity. However, there has been no researchexamining the impact of distance travelled from country of originspecifically on tourist spatiotemporal behaviour in an urbansetting. This article fills this gap both theoretically and empirically,through a dual analysis of a time-space GPS tracking study and asurvey, conducted among tourists (n=413) staying at 10 differenthotels in Lisbon. Hypothesis testing allowed the identification ofstatistically significant differences between long-haulers and shorthaulersin their spatiotemporal behaviour when visiting this urbandestination.
