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LSGI’s research won IFITT 2022 Journal Paper of the Year Award

1 Apr 2022

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Dr. Yang XU


A research study conducted by Dr. Yang XU, Assistant Professor of Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and his team won the first place of 2022 Journal Paper of the Year Award by the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT). This is also the second time in a row that Dr. Xu’s research won this annual award. The study combines large-scale mobile positioning data and network science approaches to characterize the attractiveness and spatial interactions of tourism destinations in South Korea. The study was published in Tourism Management (2022 Impact Factor: 10.967), a top journal in tourism and environmental studies: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104195. Dr. Xu’s team also developed big data visualization to feature this research: https://youtu.be/XxyWzBUp-NU.

Research Units Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics

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