A LBS Supported Mining System for Self-Help Tourism—A Chinese Case Study

Abstract

This paper analyses the mobile positioning data used in researching self-help tourism. Mobile positioning data which is stored in the memory files of mobile device with GPS positioning function are as follows: the location, date, total time and etc. From this paper we can find that mobile positioning data has meaningful applications for the development of tourism. This paper proposed models to calculate the experience value of tourist and the attraction index of trajectory. The results illustrate that location data has virtues: lacation data can be collected conveniently; the precision of which is higher than traditional statistics.