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What is Ego-Network

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Handbook of Research on Holistic Optimization Techniques in the Hospitality, Tourism, and Travel Industry
The concept indicates the amount of all the nodes (here, destinations) to which an ego/node is directly connected and includes all of the ties among nodes in a network.
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Shaping and Re-Shaping Tourism Areas: A Network Approach
Vincenzo Asero (University of Catania, Italy), Simona Gozzo (University of Catania, Italy), and Venera Tomaselli (University of Catania, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1054-3.ch014
Abstract
Defining the boundaries of tourism destinations has been long recognised as a problem in tourism research. The authors aim to define the spatial configuration of tourism areas including different destinations within a same region. Tourist mobility is employed as a methodological criterion to reveal the network relationships among destinations and explain how tourism areas are being shaped and reshaped. The study combines Network Analysis methods and multinomial logistic regression models, in an approach to processing the data of a sampling survey, carried out in Sicily. The results show that the network structures among destinations affect the shape and dimension of tourism areas. Useful evidence for the spatial planning of tourism regions and destination management strategies are derived.
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