Travel behaviors

The popularity ranking given in Table 3 can also help tourism developers to design local tour recommendations for tourists. Tours to Times Square Towers can be recommended to Asian visitors before the Peak Tower and Center Mong Kok, whereas tours to the Peak Tower and Center Mong Kok can be recommended to Westerners in preference to Times Square Towers.




The GPS information from the photos is concatenated according to the time taken on a daily basis. Fig. 3 represents the movement trajectory of tourists as generated from their geotagged photos between five areas of interest in Hong Kong city center. Each trajectory is displayed as a thin white line. Regions and paths with many lines passing through them indicate a high density of movement. It appears that tourists tend to travel between areas that are close to each other, such as from Center Mong Kok to Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsim Sha Tsui to Hong Kong Central, or Hong Kong Central to Times Square Towers.



“Vu, H. Q., Li, G., Law, R., & Ye, B. H. (2015):
Exploring the travel behaviors of inbound tourists to Hong Kong using geotagged photos.
Tourism Management, 46, 222–232. ”