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The aim of this chapter is to examine how mobile positioning data can be used for measuring the impacts of short term events and emergency situations on tourism. As case study, we measure the impact of street riots and political confrontation on incoming tourism with the case study of the Bronze Night riots in Estonia, in April 2007. This political unrest was real emergency situation for Estonia and tourism is one of the most important industries for Estonia. We draw out methodological lessons on using such Call Detail Record based datasets as source for tourism statistics and emergency management.
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The study was supported by the EU Regional Development Foundation, Env. Conservation and Technology R&D Program project TERIKVANT 3.2.0802.11-0043 and Conference travel by Information Technology Foundation for Education (HITSA). The authors are grateful to the mobile network operator EMT, and Positium LBS in Estonia, for providing the data used in this study.
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Lamp, ML., Ahas, R., Tiru, M., Saluveer, E., Aasa, A. (2014). Mobile Positioning Data in Emergency Management: Measuring the Impact of Street Riots and Political Confrontation on Incoming Tourism. In: Liu, C. (eds) Principle and Application Progress in Location-Based Services. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04028-8_20
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