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Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2017 pp 43–58Cite as

Reviewing Geotagging Research in Tourism

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Advanced medium-sharing service and mobile technologies create a large volume of geotagged data online. The characteristics of geotagged data provide a new method for tourism and hospitality researchers to analyse tourist movement and behaviour. To extend knowledge on utilizing geotagged data in the tourism and hospitality industry, this study aims to review existing geotagging research in tourism and hospitality and thus identify a potential research topic in this area. Five research categories and future geotagging research topics in tourism and hospitality are identified and discussed.

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The work described in this paper was this font size seems to be tiny supported by a grant funded by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (GRF Project Number: 15503814). The project was also funded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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    Elise Wong & Rob Law

  2. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

    Gang Li

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Wong, E., Law, R., Li, G. (2017). Reviewing Geotagging Research in Tourism. In: Schegg, R., Stangl, B. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51168-9_4

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