tourism

Britta Ricker, our former masters student, now a PhD student at Simon Fraser University, has published her first article out of her masters research:

Ricker Britta A., Peter A. Johnson, and Renee E. Sieber. 2012. Tourism and environmental change in Barbados: gathering citizen perspectives with volunteered geographic information (VGI). Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Published in iFirst pp. 1-17.

This one on web harvesting for tourism that's co-authored by some excellent undergraduates:

Johnson, Peter A. , Sieber, Renee E. , Magnien, Nicolas and Ariwi, Joseph. 2011. Automated web harvesting to collect and analyse user-generated content for tourism, Current Issues in Tourism. First published on: 16 February 2011 (iFirst)

Our tourism article is out!

Johnson, P. and R. E. Sieber. 2010. An Individual-based approach to modeling tourism dynamics. Tourism Analysis 15 (3): 517-530.

Peter presented a paper on the how tourism researchers can use web scraping of tourism recommendation sites to conduct spatial and theme-based research.

Peter Johnson and Renee Sieber. 2009. Mining the Web: User Generated Content Research. Travel and Tourism Research Association Canada. Tourism Away from the Mainstream. October 14-17, Guelph, Ontario.