Fonte: Journal of Tourism & Development; v. 2, n. 21/22 (2014); 111-121
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Resumo: The tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour is a complex phenomenon, influenced by numerous factors related both to destination and tourists. However, understanding and, to a certain extent, managing how tourists move in space and time is crucial to ensure their experience quality as well as well as the efficient and sustainable management of destinations and attractions. Especially with basis on multi-destination travel studies, there is evidence that the time constraints are one of the most influential factors on the tourists’ itineraries and space-time activity. In fact, due to limited time budgets, the tourists tend to make most of their stay, increasing the intensity of their visit and the amplitude of their movements. In the urban setting, tourists usually include several attractions in their intra-destination itineraries, which makes the city the stage par excellence of multi-attraction travel experience. However, there are still relatively few empirical studies in this area especially in the intra-destination context. Thus, in addition to seeking further research advances, this research innovatively tests the impact of length of stay on the tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour understood in its global scope, analysing both ‘movement’ and ‘multi-attraction’ dimensions. Based on the data collected both by a time-space GPS tracking study and a survey, conducted among tourists (n=408) staying at ten different hotels in Lisbon, statistically significant differences related to the length of stay were identified confirming the relevance of this impact on tourists’ spatiotemporal behaviour.
