An agent-based model of tourist movements in New Zealand: implications for spatial yield
Abstract
Tourism is New Zealand’s fourth largest industry, providing jobs for thousands of New
Zealanders and significant foreign capital for the nation’s economy. Of concern to ministry and industry
decision makers is the “spatial yield” of these tourists which takes into account the spatial and temporal
contributions of their movements in terms of economic, cultural and environmental impacts. We have
developed an agent-based model of tourism movements to simulate these impacts and to allow for the
evaluation of different scenarios (such as increases in petrol prices or variations in currency exchange rates)
on the behaviours of those tourists. In order to develop realistic and grounded heuristics for the model,
interview protocols were developed in order to identify the key drivers in tourists’ decision making process.... [Show full abstract]
Keywords
simulation; agent based modeling; interviews; tourismFields of Research
1506 TourismDate
2011-12Type
Conference Contribution - Published (Conference Paper)Collections
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