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Tourism & Management Studies
Print version ISSN 2182-8458On-line version ISSN 2182-8466
Abstract
DINIS, Gorete; COSTA, Carlos and PACHECO, Osvaldo. Similarities and correlation between resident tourist overnights and Google Trends information in Portugal and its tourism regions. TMStudies [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.3, pp.15-22. ISSN 2182-8458.
Over the last years, we observed an exponential growth in the number of tourism consumers that use the Internet as a source of information during a destination selection process. Google Trends is a tool that displays data, almost in real time, on the interest of people in a particular topic based on search trends. This paper demonstrates that Google Trends is a tool that can provide useful and relevant information about the interests of individuals in relation to domestic tourism destinations at national and regional levels. Our findings indicate that overnights spent in hotel establishments by the residents in Portugal are strongly correlated with the Google index, mainly in mainland Portugal, Alentejo and Algarve regions, and that the results improve when more municipalities names and the national or the regional tourism brands are included as search terms
Keywords : Google Trends; domestic tourism; search data; Portugal; big data.