Cruise tourism has increased significantly in recent years, which has led to part of the dynamics of its passengers influencing the configuration of certain territorial dynamics of the sites visited. One of them is possible conflicts in the use of space and spatial congestion, especially in specific sites. In this sense, the analysis carried out seeks to identify possible characteristics of the built environment that may influence the mobility patterns of cruise passengers during their visit. Which routes have been the most visited and how the behavior varies in terms of the socioeconomic profile and characteristics of the visit. The study is located in Barcelona, one of the cities with the highest tourist flows in Europe. Barcelona is home to the main cruise port in the Mediterranean and is one of the busiest in the world for cruise passengers. The city of Barcelona offers various urban configurations such as the narrow and irregular streets of the old part and the regular layout of the Eixample. Thus, it would potentially influence decision-making when choosing the sites visited by the visitor. As one might intuit, the city has a high tourist concentration in certain specific areas such as the Rambla and the Sagrada Familia, but beyond these spaces, we also find Parc Güell, Monjuïc, Camp Nou that may be of special interest to certain visitors. For this, the mobility of more than 800 passengers has been monitored through GPS tracking technologies. Once the base data was processed, a database was generated with covariates such as road width, land use, distance to main tourist centers. The analysis carried out considers the more than 14,000 road sections.

Veronica Mejia, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Aaron Gutiérrez
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

 
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