Noam Shoval
Biographic Data
| ID | 281929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noam Shoval |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noam |
| FAMILY NAME | Shoval |
| SIGNATURE | SHOVAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8072-1398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 530 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Measuring reactions to congestion in the digital era
Cities are experiencing accelerated growth in visitor numbers to the point of overcrowding, raising concerns about negative effects on both destinations and residents. Academic discourse on overtourism primarily addresses environmental damage, infrastructure overload, and resident dissatisfaction, often overlooking how tourists experience overcrowding. When examined, tourist experiences have predominantly been measured using subjective self-repor…
Measurement of Visitors’ Subjective and Objective Emotional Response to Congestion in Public Spaces
Research on the ties between congestion and visitors’ experiences in a destination has primarily used subjective methods. The current study proposes that the emotional, subjective visitor response to congestion be measured alongside the objective experience, in real time and real-world conditions. To do so, advanced tracking methods in time and space (GPS) were combined with the Experience Sampling Method (ESM), which includes self-reporting and …
Years of Tourist Tracking: A Geographical Perspective
Tracking tourist mobility in the big data era: Insights From Data, Theory, and Future Directions
With the increasing popularity of big data analytics, significant research has been conducted in the field of tourism and hospitality studies, particularly in the form of reviews that examine current works. Even though tourism is closely intertwined with the movements of tourists, a comprehensive review that investigates how big data analytics is utilised to track tourist mobility is still lacking. Hence, the primary objective of this study is to…
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index
Technological developments over the last two decades have allowed researchers to employ advanced tracking technologies to collect high-resolution spatial and temporal data. Despite the extensive use of these technologies in tourism research, they have not yet been applied to the existing indicators of tourism demand. The current paper aims to fill this lacuna, proposing the use of tracking technologies to measure tourist activity in destinations …
Tourism and Urban Planning in European Cities
Impact of incentives on tourist activity in space-time
Real-Time Measurement of Tourists’ Objective and Subjective Emotions in Time and Space
The examination of tourists’ experiences is an essential subject in tourism scholarship. This study presents novel methods by which spatio-temporal data can be combined with physiological measures of emotion and semantic contextual information in order to obtain a comprehensive and integrative understanding of tourists’ experience in time and space. Four data collection techniques were combined and applied to a sample of 68 tourists in Jerusalem:…
Tracking technologies and urban analysis: Adding the emotional dimension
Urban planning and tourism in European cities
This special issue bridges the existing gap in the tourism and urban literature regarding planning and tourism in European cities and investigates the interrelationship between urban planning and tourism and its evolvement and transition over time. It includes nine articles that focus on different cases of urban planning and tourism in European cities. All the cities presented in this special issue function as capital cities, therefore they were …
Sensing tourists: Geoinformatics and the Future of Tourism Geography Research
In the last decade, we have witnessed unprecedented advances in the collection and utilization of high-resolution data on tourist mobility. This is a result of a variety of technological developmen
Trajectories: Analysis
A trajectory is defined in its broad sense as the path that a moving object follows through space as a function of time. In the context of human geography a trajectory or space–time activity of humans is not predefined, but a result of constraints and decisions. Time geography created some decades ago a conceptual framework for explaining and visualizing trajectories of people. However, the past decade witnessed a dramatic growth in the implement…
From ideological space to recreational tourism: The Israeli forest
The forest as a leisure, recreation, and tourist space is growing in significance as part of nature-based tourism. It contributes to social and economic development, particularly in light of the global trend for more recreation and tourism in developed and developing countries. The main aim of this paper is to describe and analyze the evolution of forest development policy and its implications for the function of the forest as a recreation and le…
Compliance and data quality in GPS-based studies
Cruise passengers' behavior at the destination: Investigation using GPS technology
The use of tracking technologies in tourism research: The First Decade
The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the implementation of various tracking technologies in tourism studies. A thorough review of literature reveals that 45 papers were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, comprising 40 percent of the papers published in the three leading journals on tourism scholarship. The rate of papers published annually has grown in recent years and it is clear that this novel field is further expandin…
Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone
At the end of 2014, over 93 percent of the world's population owned cellular phones, with penetration rates that exceeded 100 percent in most developed countries. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and have had a significant impact on society—including on individuals' daily movement and mobility patterns. Cellular phones have also been used for research and have been employed to collect time–space data about the mobility of r…
Mental maps compared to actual spatial behavior using GPS data: A new method for investigating segregation in cities
Typologies of tourists' time-space consumption: A new approach using GPS data and GIS tools
Time geography presents a conceptual framework to describe and understand the tourists' spatio-temporal behavior, according to which the effective reach of an individual is defined by time-space constraints and the path taken by the individual. In recent years, a growing number of studies within this framework have begun to use geographic information systems (GIS) tools and data gathered with the help of advanced tracking methods. These tools and…
Lessons on Tourism: The Challenge of Reinventing Destinations
Street‐naming, tourism development and cultural conflict: The case of the Old City of Acre/Akko/Akka
Extensive research has been conducted on place names because they are one of the most significant markers of the intimate relationship between people and territory. Several studies on street names have already noted the use of place names as a form of symbolic capital in order to create and sell place distinctions for the purposes of prestige and profit. The literature, however, has not yet adequately addressed a different motivation in place‐nam…
The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot: Implementations of GPS and other tracking technologies for geographic research
Temporal Activity Patterns of Theme Park Visitors
In this article, we illustrate the importance of time in understanding theme park visitor activity patterns. The study that is described here made use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to track and record the time–space trajectories of visitors at the PortAventura theme park in Catalonia, Spain. The findings suggest that visitors to theme parks do demonstrate distinct diurnal and intradiurnal mass behavior patterns or rhythms of a…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Hotel location and tourist activity in cities
Hotel location and tourist activity in cities
Tracking tourists in the digital age
The use of tracking technologies in tourism research: The First Decade
The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the implementation of various tracking technologies in tourism studies. A thorough review of literature reveals that 45 papers were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, comprising 40 percent of the papers published in the three leading journals on tourism scholarship. The rate of papers published annually has grown in recent years and it is clear that this novel field is further expandin…
Typologies of tourists' time-space consumption: A new approach using GPS data and GIS tools
Time geography presents a conceptual framework to describe and understand the tourists' spatio-temporal behavior, according to which the effective reach of an individual is defined by time-space constraints and the path taken by the individual. In recent years, a growing number of studies within this framework have begun to use geographic information systems (GIS) tools and data gathered with the help of advanced tracking methods. These tools and…
Sequence Alignment as a Method for Human Activity Analysis in Space and Time
This article introduces the method of sequence alignment as a tool for analyzing the sequential aspects within the temporal and spatial dimensions of human activities. Sequence alignment was first developed during the 1980s and employed by biochemists to analyze DNA sequences. Toward the end of the 1990s it was adapted for use in the social sciences. However, unlike other social sciences practitioners, geographers have not, until now, exploited t…
Temporal Activity Patterns of Theme Park Visitors
In this article, we illustrate the importance of time in understanding theme park visitor activity patterns. The study that is described here made use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to track and record the time–space trajectories of visitors at the PortAventura theme park in Catalonia, Spain. The findings suggest that visitors to theme parks do demonstrate distinct diurnal and intradiurnal mass behavior patterns or rhythms of a…
A New Phase in the Competition for the Olympic Gold: The London and New York Bids for the 2012 Games
The financial success of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, coupled with the dramatic increase in the revenues from the sale of television broadcasting rights and the sponsorship by international companies, have brought about a growing interest by cities to host the Games. This article contends that it is possible to identify the beginning of a new phase in the development of the Olympic Games. The question asked is why are cities like New York …
Mental maps compared to actual spatial behavior using GPS data: A new method for investigating segregation in cities
Street‐naming, tourism development and cultural conflict: The case of the Old City of Acre/Akko/Akka
Extensive research has been conducted on place names because they are one of the most significant markers of the intimate relationship between people and territory. Several studies on street names have already noted the use of place names as a form of symbolic capital in order to create and sell place distinctions for the purposes of prestige and profit. The literature, however, has not yet adequately addressed a different motivation in place‐nam…
Cruise passengers' behavior at the destination: Investigation using GPS technology
Tracking technologies and urban analysis
The Geography of Hotels in Cities: An Empirical Validation of a Forgotten Model
In 1968, Yokeno published a model of intra-urban location of hotels; he did not validate the model empirically. This paper argues that a hotel located in the centre of the city will charge more for a room than a hotel of the same category that is situated in the periphery. In addition to other indicators, this hypothesis was tested using the Average Room Rate (ARR), which is the average annual price paid for a room in a hotel (excluding breakfast…
Categorization of tourist attractions and the modeling of tourist cities: Based on the co-plot method of multivariate analysis
Tracking technologies and urban analysis: Adding the emotional dimension
Tourism development and cultural conflict: The case of 'Nazareth 2000
In areas that are characterized by political, national, cultural and religious conflicts, issues concerning conservation and development become particularly complex. One prominent example of this tension can be seen in events that have taken place over the last decade in the city of Nazareth, which hosts some of Christianity's holiest sites. Until the mid-twentieth century most of the city's residents were Christian. In the past several decades h…
The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot: Implementations of GPS and other tracking technologies for geographic research
What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era
Urban hotel development patterns in the face of political shifts
Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index
Technological developments over the last two decades have allowed researchers to employ advanced tracking technologies to collect high-resolution spatial and temporal data. Despite the extensive use of these technologies in tourism research, they have not yet been applied to the existing indicators of tourism demand. The current paper aims to fill this lacuna, proposing the use of tracking technologies to measure tourist activity in destinations …
Urban planning and tourism in European cities
This special issue bridges the existing gap in the tourism and urban literature regarding planning and tourism in European cities and investigates the interrelationship between urban planning and tourism and its evolvement and transition over time. It includes nine articles that focus on different cases of urban planning and tourism in European cities. All the cities presented in this special issue function as capital cities, therefore they were …
Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone
At the end of 2014, over 93 percent of the world's population owned cellular phones, with penetration rates that exceeded 100 percent in most developed countries. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives and have had a significant impact on society—including on individuals' daily movement and mobility patterns. Cellular phones have also been used for research and have been employed to collect time–space data about the mobility of r…
Impact of incentives on tourist activity in space-time
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Attitudes of Family and Professional Care-Givers towards the Use of GPS for Tracking Patients with Dementia: An Exploratory Study
This study examined the attitudes of family and professional care-givers towards the use of advanced electronic tracking such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for elderly people with dementia. The study revealed four principal findings. First, care-givers' views ranged from feeling obligated to use the tracking device for the sake of patients' safety through support of the use of the device for the sak…
Sensing tourists: Geoinformatics and the Future of Tourism Geography Research
In the last decade, we have witnessed unprecedented advances in the collection and utilization of high-resolution data on tourist mobility. This is a result of a variety of technological developmen
Urban hotel development patterns in the face of political shifts
Tourism Management in Heritage Cities
A New Phase in the Competition for the Olympic Gold: The London and New York Bids for the 2012 Games
The financial success of the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games, coupled with the dramatic increase in the revenues from the sale of television broadcasting rights and the sponsorship by international companies, have brought about a growing interest by cities to host the Games. This article contends that it is possible to identify the beginning of a new phase in the development of the Olympic Games. The question asked is why are cities like New York …
Museums as Flagships of Urban Development
Categorization of tourist attractions and the modeling of tourist cities: Based on the co-plot method of multivariate analysis
The Decline of Israel's Mediterranean Resorts: Life Cycle Change Versus National Tourism Master Planning
In spite of the general increase in both incoming and domestic tourism in Israel during the last third of the twentieth century, there has been stagnation and decline in tourism to the country’s Mediterranean seaside resorts. At first glance, this situation seems to conform to Butler’s life cycle model. However, closer analysis reveals that Israel’s tourism policy, reflected in a sequence of national master plans, is largely responsible for this …
The Geography of Hotels in Cities: An Empirical Validation of a Forgotten Model
In 1968, Yokeno published a model of intra-urban location of hotels; he did not validate the model empirically. This paper argues that a hotel located in the centre of the city will charge more for a room than a hotel of the same category that is situated in the periphery. In addition to other indicators, this hypothesis was tested using the Average Room Rate (ARR), which is the average annual price paid for a room in a hotel (excluding breakfast…
The Role of the State and the Rise of the Red Sea Resorts in Egypt and Israel
Literature Review
Tracking tourists in the digital age
Sequence Alignment as a Method for Human Activity Analysis in Space and Time
This article introduces the method of sequence alignment as a tool for analyzing the sequential aspects within the temporal and spatial dimensions of human activities. Sequence alignment was first developed during the 1980s and employed by biochemists to analyze DNA sequences. Toward the end of the 1990s it was adapted for use in the social sciences. However, unlike other social sciences practitioners, geographers have not, until now, exploited t…
Tourism development and cultural conflict: The case of 'Nazareth 2000
In areas that are characterized by political, national, cultural and religious conflicts, issues concerning conservation and development become particularly complex. One prominent example of this tension can be seen in events that have taken place over the last decade in the city of Nazareth, which hosts some of Christianity's holiest sites. Until the mid-twentieth century most of the city's residents were Christian. In the past several decades h…
Tracking technologies and urban analysis
Inscribing Universal Values into the Urban Landscape: New York, Jerusalem, and Winnipeg as Case Studies
The growing importance of culture in contemporary society and the rising importance of tourism in the economic base of postindustrial cities have, in recent years, led to the construction of new "flagship-museums" characterized by their size and spectacular architecture. Their purpose is to capture the public imagination, to attract tourists, and to promote the notion that those cities have successfully transformed themselves from centers of manu…
Attitudes of Family and Professional Care-Givers towards the Use of GPS for Tracking Patients with Dementia: An Exploratory Study
This study examined the attitudes of family and professional care-givers towards the use of advanced electronic tracking such as GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for elderly people with dementia. The study revealed four principal findings. First, care-givers' views ranged from feeling obligated to use the tracking device for the sake of patients' safety through support of the use of the device for the sak…
What can we learn about the mobility of the elderly in the GPS era
Families' and Professional Caregivers' Views of Using Advanced Technology to Track People With Dementia
in this study we examined the ethical aspects of the use of the Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to track people with dementia. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from focus groups of family and professional caregivers. The most important theme was the need to balance patients' need for safety with the need to preserve their autonomy and privacy. The main potential benefit of the use of GPS was related to the peace of mind of the…
Hotel location and tourist activity in cities
Use of the global positioning system to measure the out-of-home mobility of older adults with differing cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment manifests in changed out-of-home mobility. Until recently, the assessment of outdoor mobility relied on the reports of family care-givers and institutional staff and used observational approaches, activity monitoring or behavioural checklists. This article presents data for 41 mildly demented, mildly cognitively impaired and healthy men and women aged 64–90 years in Tel-Aviv (Israel) who took part in an interdisciplinary proj…
Interplay of Cognitive and Motivational Resources for Out-of-Home Behavior in a Sample of Cognitively Heterogeneous Older Adults: Findings of the SenTra Project
Findings support the view that well-being-related motivations to exert out-of-home behavior may become less important in old age because of the increasing cognitive resources required by such behavior
Lessons on Tourism: The Challenge of Reinventing Destinations
Street‐naming, tourism development and cultural conflict: The case of the Old City of Acre/Akko/Akka
Extensive research has been conducted on place names because they are one of the most significant markers of the intimate relationship between people and territory. Several studies on street names have already noted the use of place names as a form of symbolic capital in order to create and sell place distinctions for the purposes of prestige and profit. The literature, however, has not yet adequately addressed a different motivation in place‐nam…
The shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot: Implementations of GPS and other tracking technologies for geographic research
Temporal Activity Patterns of Theme Park Visitors
In this article, we illustrate the importance of time in understanding theme park visitor activity patterns. The study that is described here made use of the GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to track and record the time–space trajectories of visitors at the PortAventura theme park in Catalonia, Spain. The findings suggest that visitors to theme parks do demonstrate distinct diurnal and intradiurnal mass behavior patterns or rhythms of a…
Mental maps compared to actual spatial behavior using GPS data: A new method for investigating segregation in cities
Geography (32 works) · Computer Science (24 works) · Tourism (24 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (18 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Global Positioning System (11 works)