Tracking the urban visitor: methods for examining tourists' spatial behaviour and visual representations.

Abstract

This chapter examines the spatial behaviour of urban tourists. Alternatively it is possible to explore tourist spatial movements broadly, by focusing only on the trails taken. Including both the local community and tourists in such a study would add greater breadth to analysing the way in which urban spaces are negotiated and used. Similar to the Spatial Metro Project, large-scale mapping of pedestrian movement can be undertaken from parking stations and/or major transport interchanges with no debriefing or image capture. It presents the whole process, things that went well and things that did not.