This study examines if tourists actively inform themselves about the climate of their planned destination. In addition, we examine where they inform themselves and at what point in the holiday decision-making process. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to tourists at the airport, international bus station, and the train station in Hamburg during July and August 2004. Of the 394 r...

objectives and assessment points, let’s carry our vacation-planning analogy a bit further. We can have a very general destination in mind (e.g., somewhere out West), or a very specific destination (e.g., Grandma’s house at 1916 Organic Avenue, Bozeman, Montana). Arriving at our desired destination requires different types of planning and preparation, depending on where we decide to go. If we ch...

From pre-trip planning through post-trip remembering, vacations unfold over long periods of time. Through the course of a trip the same travel information may be used repeatedly but with different levels of success and satisfaction. These experiential fluctuations over time were examined in a study of trip planners, who collected travel information from a chamber of commerce before leaving home...

The paper presents a model of data assessment for the requirements of a classical four-step model of traffic demand in individual traffic in small cities. The procedure is carried out by creating an initial origin-destination trip matrix using data from the traffic count and by defining the average rate of trip generation within single households. The research applied fuzzy logic for the correc...

56 Identification of recurrent vehicle trip patterns aids the characterization of travel behavior and 57 preferences. This paper considers the development of a radial-based method to cluster vehicle 58 geospatial data, and mine vehicle trip patterns based on origin and destination points. High-resolution 59 vehicle GPS traces were collected through a pilot vehicle use survey in Singapore using ...

This study aims to test a model linking destination image, perceived value, tourist satisfaction, and tourist loyalty. Based on a sample of 300 tourists travelling by car from the World Natural Heritage Site of Tianchi, China, a new model of destination image was explored and data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that perceiv...

This working paper describes a group of techniques for disaggregating origin-destination tables for truck forecasting that makes explicit use of observed traffic on a network. Six models within the group are presented, each of which uses nonlinear least-squares estimation to obtain row and column factors for splitting trip totals from and to larger geographical areas into smaller ones. The tech...