The development of tourism typologies allows the identification of various dimensions of this important sector and can be used in tourism planning and management. In this study we developed a novel and systematic classification of European Union (EU) regions according to the predominant location of hotels, distinguishing among four distinct geographical areas: coastal zones, mountain and natural areas, cities and rural areas. For this purpose, we use Geographical Information Systems to integrate regional boundaries and the geographical zoning with a detailed dataset of hotel location and capacity. We then classified the EU regions into five typologies with the assistance of a hierarchical clustering algorithm. Further exploration of the results shows very distinct tourism profiles across the identified typologies in terms of tourism intensity, seasonality and other traits.
BATISTA E SILVA Filipe;
RIBEIRO BARRANCO Ricardo;
PROIETTI Paola;
PIGAIANI Cristian;
LAVALLE Carlo;
2021-08-06
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
JRC122858
0160-7383 (online),
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738320302218,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC122858,
10.1016/j.annals.2020.103077 (online),
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