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Overtourism has, in the past years, grown to become a global issue, turning popular tourist destinations into unsustainable places of congestion, creating visitor dissatisfaction, and forever changing the daily life of nearby residents. Action needs to be taken in order to contain this ever-increasing problem, with technological solutions that will try to simulate and adapt to the complexity of each separate case. This work proposes a holistic approach to destination management, introducing an innovative flow management system, that can use historic data together with real-time reservation and traffic congestion data, in order to produce forecasts and recommendations that will help attraction administrators (museums, sights, monuments, etc.) and policymakers in decision-making. The proposed system is part of an integrated approach, featuring end-user applications for visitors and tourism professionals.
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This work has been conducted in the context of the PeopleFlows research project (http://www.peopleflows.gr/) and has been co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH–CREATE–INNOVATE (project code: T1EDK-05210).
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Kalaitzakis, M. et al. (2023). People-Flows: A Proposed Tourist Destination Management Paradigm. In: Gartner, W.C. (eds) New Perspectives and Paradigms in Applied Economics and Business. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23844-4_24
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