M-Guide: Recommending Systems of Food Centre in Buleleng Regency

Buleleng is Regency located in the North of Bali. Buleleng becomes one of the tourist destinations for both domestic and international tourist to travel. Buleleng Regency is known for its natural attractions. Besides its numbers of tourist attractions, this Regency also presents a lot of food choices, especially special cuisine in Buleleng. Not only has the special cuisine, Buleleng also had many choices of foods from the outside area. The price, the taste, the atmosphere (view), the service and the facilities vary at each centre. So, the tourists who visit Buleleng are confused when they have to choose one. This system stores 140 food courts in the Buleleng area and each of them is grouped into 15 groups based on its territories. Based on this reason, the collaborative method was chosen for this system. Besides the collaborative method, this system also uses the Location-Based Service (LBS) technology that utilizes the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its application, which the users can find out their position, define and search for specific locations either far or near; one of them is finding the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency. This system is running on an Android mobile device. This system is expected to (1) facilitate the user in searching the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency (2) the user can find out the nearest food centre from their location

O fenómeno backpacker e os seus padrões de movimento espaciotemporal no destino urbano Porto

O advento das companhias aéreas de baixo custo tem contribuído para o aumento do número de jovens que viajam, em especial do segmento backpacker, fenómeno heterogéneo e complexo, que tem despertado internacionalmente o interesse de vários investigadores. Reconhecida a sua relevância económica e social, as relações entre os determinantes do seu comportamento espaciotemporal e os padrões de movimentos intradestino deste segmento não foram ainda devidamente investigadas. Apesar de alguns estudos no âmbito da Geografia e do Turismo já terem analisado os padrões de comportamento espaciotemporal de turistas, quer em viagens multidestino quer no âmbito intradestino, o segmento dos turistas jovens tem sido ignorado. Esta investigação tem como objetivo principal fornecer uma visão abrangente das tendências do turismo backpacker no destino urbano Porto e analisar os seus padrões de comportamento espaciotemporal durante um dia de visita. A recolha dos dados foi realizada através da aplicação de um inquérito por questionário a backpackers hospedados em vários hostels na cidade do Porto e através da utilização do Sistema de Posicionamento Global inserido na aplicação de smartphone “Open GPS Tracker”, com a qual se realizaram os rastreamentos dos seus movimentos. A análise espacial foi efetuada com recurso ao software QGIS 3.2.0 tendo sido construído um conjunto de mapas temáticos que permitiram uma análise mais pormenorizada dos movimentos efetuados. A utilização do software ClustalG possibilitou a execução do alinhamento sequencial múltiplo (ASM) de todos os movimentos rastreados e a criação de uma árvore taxonómica que revelou a existência de dez grupos/clusters de backpackers tendo em conta os territórios visitados, o tempo de permanência nos mesmos e a sequência em que essas visitas foram efetuadas. O ASM permitiu concluir que o segmento de turistas backpackers consome e experiencia o destino Porto de maneira distinta. Procedeu-se ainda à análise estatística descritiva e inferencial dos dados recolhidos através do software IBM SPSS 22.0 tendo-se testado um conjunto de hipóteses através de testes estatísticos não paramétricos. Concluiu-se que o mercado backpacker tem uma grande relevância económica e que o estudo do seu comportamento espaciotemporal pode contribuir para uma melhor organização e estruturação do destino. Salienta-se ainda a importância das fontes de informação utilizadas durante a visita com impacto ao nível da locomoção, orientação e intensidade.The emergence and expansion of low-cost airlines have contributed to the growth in the number of young people who travel annually, especially the backpacker segment, an heterogeneous and complex phenomenon that has attracted the interest of several researchers around the world. Recognized its economic and social relevance, the relationships between the determinants of its space-time behaviour and the intradestination movement patterns of this segment have not yet been properly investigated. Even though studies in the field of Geography and Tourism have already analysed space-time behaviour patterns of tourists in a multidestination and intradestination travels, the segment of backpackers has been ignored. This research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of backpacker tourism trends in Porto urban destination and to analyse the patterns of their space-time behaviour during a day's visit. Data were collected through the administration of a questionnaire survey to backpackers staying in different hostels in Porto and through the use of a free open licence global positioning system (GPS) smartphone application known as “Open GPS Tracker” with which their movements were tracked. A spatial analysis was conducted using QGIS 3.2.0 software through which a set of thematic maps were performed, allowing a more detailed analysis of the tourist’s movements. ClustalG software enabled the multiple sequential alignment (MSA) of all tracked movements and the creation of a taxonomic tree that revealed the existence of ten backpacker groups/clusters according to the visited areas, time spent in them and the sequence in which these visits were made. Multiple sequence alignment allowed us to conclude that backpacker tourist segment consumes and experiences Porto in a different way. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the collected data was also performed using IBM SPSS 22.0 software and a set of hypotheses was tested through non-parametric statistical tests. It was concluded that the backpacker market has great economic relevance and the study of its space-time behaviour can contribute to a better organized and structured destination. The importance of touristic information sources used by backpackers during their visit is also emphasized due to its impact on locomotion, wayfinding and intensity.Programa Doutoral em Turism

‘Finding a ‘place’ through dwelling in travel’: intersections between mobility, place and identity in lifestyle travel

The world is increasingly mobile (Adey 2006). Flows of good, services and cultures are changing the relations between people and place, leading scholars to questions existing notions of home, travel, and belonging. This thesis explores these issues by focusing on one group who epitomise the twenty-first century world of mobility: lifestyle travellers. The thesis considers the experiences of lifestyle travellers across numerous world-wide locations, drawing on primary data collected over two years. It adopts an explicitly geographical approach to studying lifestyle travel, focusing attention on the significance of place and movement for these highly mobile beings, in order to examine what this mobility means for ideas of identity and home. Complementing research in the tourism field, the research highlights how lifestyle travel is a heterogeneous and difficult to classify activity, involving a myriad of different ideas, practices, behaviours and motivations. However, by adopting Cresswell’s ‘constellations of mobility’ (2010) as an organising rather than classifying device, the thesis is able to unpack this diversity and illuminate the embroilment of ‘mobilities’ and ‘moorings’ in the practices of lifestyle travellers. It goes on to demonstrate how place immersion is crucial to lifestyle travel, illustrating how practices of mobility extend past corporeal movement between places, exploring the unique and diverse practices within places. This pursuit of integration within places by lifestyle travellers shows how place and mobility can be complementary rather than exclusionary, with different immersion techniques outlined to demonstrate the different depths of place experience desired by participants (ranging from ‘spectating’ at the peripheries to becoming ‘community members’ within places). From these findings, the research emphasises how place itself is mobile, as well as lifestyle travellers. By illustrating the relational ways in which lifestyle travellers continually take and make place, the thesis uncovers new ways of conceptualising ‘home’ that are formed through the co-constituent relationship between place and mobility. The thesis therefore demonstrates these factors to be significant and mutually enabling components to the identities of lifestyle travellers in the twenty first century

No signal here: self-development and optimal experience from digital-free tourism

The present research aims to establish a conceptual understanding of the benefits tourists may gain from digital-free tourism. The concept of digital-free tourism was proposed to represent situations characterised by the absence of or severely limited access to information and communication technology. There has been a contemporary concern over the sustained use of the internet and digital technologies, in terms of the side-effects on individuals' physical, psychological and social conditions and the possible deterioration of tourist experience. Therefore, the assumption of the potential of reduced technology use in tourism to improve tourist well-being has been claimed. Four interrelated studies were conducted to investigate the topic both as a social phenomenon and a niche tourism market. The rewarding outcomes of digital-free tourism were examined by addressing three specific questions. The first research question "is digital-free tourism rising in prominence?" was answered by the first study – media representation of digital-free tourism: a critical discourse analysis included in Chapter 2 of this thesis. Archival data, that is online media documents focusing on the broad topic of digital detoxing on holiday, was analysed at three levels, including linguistic characteristics, temporal diachronic interpretation and socio-cultural explanation. Media discourses around digital-free tourism were found to be evolving. Specifically, vacations and tourism are discoursed as ideal situations for managing technology use behaviours. The value of digital-free tourism over time has moved from relieving stress to life flourishing. Multiple digital-free tourism providers now offer diverse experiences to a growing broad market. The second research question "what are the positive experiences and impacts of digital-free tourism?" was answered by conducting the second study – exploration of benefits from digital-free tourism: a grounded theory approach in Chapter 3. Sixty five carefully selected key informants with expert knowledge or personal experience of digital-free tourism were asked to report their experience, observations and perspectives about reduced technology use on holiday. Based on the patterns in the data, a theoretical model was developed to display the positive changes of tourists' psychological, behavioural and life conditions through the process of digital-free tourism. The third research question "in what ways does digital-free vacation experience contribute to people's well-being?" was addressed in two further in-depth studies. These studies were developed in Chapters 4 and 5. The third study in Chapter 4 - self-development in digital-free tourism: building character strengths through coping with challenging investigated the correlations between digital-free tourism and the development of character strengths and virtues which build personal well-being. Key-informants' statements obtained in the previous study were re-coded by employing a catalogue of twenty four character strengths in positive psychology as a priori coding scheme. In the results, twenty three character strengths were found to be related to digital-free tourism. They were perceived to be the strengths that were utilised to cope with issues faced in the digital-free contexts. A tiered model was built to outline the core, secondary and peripheral strengths in digital-free tourism. The fourth study in Chapter 5 - optimal experience: the role of reduced smartphone use in increasing perception of restorative environments and producing flow attempted to develop measures for the levels of perceived restorative quality of digital-free tourism environments and the flow tourists experienced when technology use was reduced; as well as to examine the nexus among critical variables by testing a Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM). The hypothesised positive correlation between restorative environment and flow was confirmed. Smartphone dependence was found to be effective in reducing the level of flow and moderating the relationship between restorative environment and flow. A VI trend of high dependence on smartphone weakening tourists' ability to perceive restorative digital-free environment was also revealed by this empirical study. Consequently, the value and significance of positive changes of tourists' psychological, social, behavioural and life conditions arising from disconnection are suggested in these findings about the understudied concept of digital-free tourism. Such knowledge can make important theoretical contributions to the understanding of the intricate relationship between technology and tourism, the rewarding outcomes of vacation time involving reduced technology engagement, and the well-being from positive tourist experience. Digital-free tourism can provide individuals opportunities to experience a new way of being in this digital era, reflect on and regulate the technology use behaviours of themselves and their families, as well as increase well-being through selecting unplugging vacations. The present research also introduced digital-free tourism as a new style of tourism product and service that can be an effective strategy for remote regions to develop innovative forms of tourism

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

The art of neighbouring

Over the past decades, living in proximity to an increasingly powerful China has gained new meanings. 'Rising China'- the nation, the notion, and the buzzword-sparks dreams and triggers fears. Borders that were closed during the Cold War era have again become zones of contact and exchange. Old trade routes are revived, new economic corridors established, and remote border towns turned into special zones. Tales of entrepreneurial success spread wide and stimulate hopes for trans-regional development. At the same time, security concerns remain high, territorial disputes still loom large, and minorities from northern Burma to Tibet, Xinjiang and Tajikistan continue to seek autonomy. In this context, engaging in multiple neighbouring relations has become a necessity for those living in these zones of contact and exchange. The experiences and realities of relation-making across China's borders shape life in profound and lasting ways. However, these experiences and realities of everyday neighbouring receive less analytic attention than they deserve

Harnessing social media data to explore urban tourist patterns and the implications for retail location modelling

The tourism landscape in urban destinations has been spatially expanded in recent years due to the increasing prevalence of sharing economy accommodation and other tourism trends. Tourists now mix with locals to form increasingly intricate population geographies within urban neighbourhoods, bringing new demand into areas which are beyond the conventional tourist locations. How these dispersed tourist demands impact local communities has become an emerging issue in both urban and tourism studies. However, progress has been hampered by the lack of fine granular travel data which can be used for understanding urban tourist patterns at the small-area level. Paying special attention to tourist grocery demand in urban destinations, the thesis takes London as the example to present the various sources of LBSN datasets that can be used as valuable supplements to conventional surveys and statistics to produce novel tourist population estimates and new tourist grocery demand layers at the small area level. First, the work examines the potential of Weibo check-in data in London for offering greater insights into the spatial travel patterns of urban tourists from China. Then, AirDNA and Twitter datasets are used in conjunction with tourism surveys and statistics in London to model the small area tourist population maps of different tourist types and generate tourist demand estimates. Finally, Foursquare datasets are utilised to inform tourist grocery travel behaviour and help to calibrate the retail location model. The tourist travel patterns extracted from various LBSN data, at both individual and collective levels, offer tremendous value to assist the construction and calibration of spatial modelling techniques. In this case, the emphasis is on improving retail location spatial Interaction Models (SIMs) within grocery retailing. These models have seen much recent work to add non-residential demand, but demand from urban tourism has yet to be included. The additional tourist demand layer generated in this thesis is incorporated into a new custom-built SIM to assess the impacts of urban tourism on the local grocery sector and support current store operations and trading potential evaluations of future investments