Purpose: A systematic review to summarize the validity and reliability of steps, distance,
energy expenditure, speed, elevation, heart rate, and sleep assessed by Garmin activity …

After 50 years of steady increase, per capita visits to US national parks have declined since
1988. This decline, coincident with the rise in electronic entertainment media, may represent …

Travel party size has been shown to affect tourists' behavior. However, due to a previous
lack of big-data analytical techniques, there remains limited research on the effect of party …

Traditional methods of collecting spatial and temporal use data are burdensome to both
tourists and researchers, and they often lack needed accuracy. This article examines …

The analysis of space and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) have long been
important to natural resource applications. More recently, social scientists have been …

Measuring and monitoring use levels in parks and protected areas (PPAs) remains an
ongoing challenge for managers worldwide. Understanding visitation levels is particularly …

Best-practice visitor-monitoring techniques are crucial for the assessment of tourism-related
impacts in natural areas of high conservation value. In such studies, ecosystem variables …

The unmanaged impacts of recreation and tourism can often result in unacceptable changes
in resource conditions and quality of the visitor experience. Minimum impact visitor …

Cruise passengers' behaviour at the destination is a rather poorly investigated
phenomenon. The single exit/entry point and the relatively brief visiting time, which …

No tourism study to date, has examined the ability of incentives to shape the spatio-temporal
behaviour of tourists. Data collected from the port of Palermo in Sicily (Italy), using traditional …