Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
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School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Biography

Dr. Hailong Chen is a Professor of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. His research interests as a Professor reflect in her wide range of publications in various national and international journals. Area of Expertisation: Tourism big data; Multiple sources; Heterogenous structure; TSE model. 

Publications

• Review Article   
  Big Data in Tourism: General Issues and Challenges
  Author(s): Hailong Chen, Yi Liu* and Kaiqi Chen
  
  This paper offers a sympathetic review to the environment and studies of tourism big data, including the general features, types, analytical technics and research progress of tourism big data. It uses the case of TSE model to illustrate the challenges of conducting tourism big data research. In doing so, it argues that the key of using tourism big data is to make good use of heterogenous data structure from multiple sources. This requires sophisticated technics and innovative analytical frameworks that allow us to explore potential mechanisms subsumed in our world but hard to be identified and verified by traditional methods... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0269.21.s4.003

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