Towards a multidimensional view of tourist mobility patterns in cities: A mobile phone data perspective

Yang Xu, Jiaying Xue, Sangwon Park, Yang Yue

Abstract: Highlights•A cross-city comparison of tourist mobility patterns using mobile phone data•Nine mobility indicators for quantifying important aspects of tourist travel behavior•An eigen decomposition approach for characterizing inherent mobility variations among individual travelers•The behavioral characteristics of travelers from different foreign countries to South Korea are analyzed.•Travelers with different mobility characteristics have different spatial preferences when visiting a city.