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Tourism Surveying from Social Media: The Validity of User-Generated Content (UGC) for the Characterization of Lodging Rankings
The aim of the thesis is to determine whether online User-Generated Content (UGC) within the lodging industry validates the ranking system of any accommodation property or platform in order to create an international hotel classification system that could categorize any type of accommodation based on different variables
From Blockbuster to Neighbourhood Buster: The Effect of Films on Barcelona
In recent years, cities such as Venice, Dubrovnik, Paris and Barcelona have experienced
an exponential increase in visitor numbers leading to episodes of tourismphobia by anti-tourism
movements, or even the decline of the destination. Among other solutions, some destinations see
film-induced tourism as a possible way of diversifying tourism supply and demand. Through the
analysis of the locations of six thematic film routes in Barcelona compared to the same locations on
the largest online travel review platform, TripAdvisor, it is concluded that, far from spreading out
tourist flows, fiction-induced tourism in Barcelona has concentrated tourism at the main attractions
of the city. Only a few exceptions of films with minor audiences lead tourists off the beaten track.
Overall, this paper provides a set of recommendations, strategies and challenges for destination
managers to help alleviate overtourism and to offer more sustainable tourism away from spots that
attract mass tourism.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (grants ID ECO2017-88984-R, TIN2015-71799-C2-2-P, and HAR2016-77734-P), and the support of the Institute of Social Development and Territory INDEST of University of Lleida (call 2018CRINDESTABC). First author also acknowledges the support of the Spanish Education Ministry for the abroad mobility stay “José Castillejo” (Ref. Number CAS19/00362)
Turbo EP-based Equalization: a Filter-Type Implementation
This manuscript has been submitted to Transactions on Communications on
September 7, 2017; revised on January 10, 2018 and March 27, 2018; and accepted
on April 25, 2018
We propose a novel filter-type equalizer to improve the solution of the
linear minimum-mean squared-error (LMMSE) turbo equalizer, with computational
complexity constrained to be quadratic in the filter length. When high-order
modulations and/or large memory channels are used the optimal BCJR equalizer is
unavailable, due to its computational complexity. In this scenario, the
filter-type LMMSE turbo equalization exhibits a good performance compared to
other approximations. In this paper, we show that this solution can be
significantly improved by using expectation propagation (EP) in the estimation
of the a posteriori probabilities. First, it yields a more accurate estimation
of the extrinsic distribution to be sent to the channel decoder. Second,
compared to other solutions based on EP the computational complexity of the
proposed solution is constrained to be quadratic in the length of the finite
impulse response (FIR). In addition, we review previous EP-based turbo
equalization implementations. Instead of considering default uniform priors we
exploit the outputs of the decoder. Some simulation results are included to
show that this new EP-based filter remarkably outperforms the turbo approach of
previous versions of the EP algorithm and also improves the LMMSE solution,
with and without turbo equalization
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