Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of hospitality and tourism studies
that have used social media analytics to collect, examine, summarize and interpret “big data” …

Urban areas of interest (AOI) refer to the regions within an urban environment that attract
people's attention. Such areas often have high exposure to the general public, and receive a …

Established methods to record tourist activities in urban centres cannot produce quantitative
data with precise spatial references. Analysing geographically positioned photography …

Geotagged photos on social media like Flickr explicitly indicate the trajectories of tourists.
They can be employed to reveal the tourists' preference on landmarks and routings of …

Visualizing the geographical positions of photographs taken by tourists is a promising
method to measure tourist activity in urban spaces. Most photo-sharing sites on the Internet …

Recent years have witnessed a rapid spread of multi-modality microblogs like Twitter and
Sina Weibo composed of image, text and emoticon. Visual sentiment prediction of such …

Since classical public sentiment analysis systems for microblog are based on the text
sentiment analysis, it is difficult to determine the sentiment of short text without clear …

The popularity of camera phones and photo sharing websites, eg Flickr and Panoramio, has
led to huge volumes of community-contributed geotagged photos (CCGPs) available on the …

Social media has become a very popular way for people to share their photos with friends.
Because most of the social images are attached with GPS (geo-tags), a photo's GPS …

Geotagging which is one of the newest technologies in the smart tourism field is reckoned as
being very useful for travelers in enhancing visiting experience. This study, focusing on the …