Travelogues and travel portals such as holidayiq.com, tripadvisor.com etc. dont only describe about the destination but also helps in booking at the said destinations. Identifying those tourists who has booked through these websites at a certain destination and following their post related to the destination also highlights the pattern tourists follow in this destinations. On the other hand some of the chain hotels, resorts etc. have a centralized database management system that allows to record the booking, arrival, stay and visitation record. Hope it helps. 

Thanks for the answer, Deep.

All the best

Jan

Jan,  We are working with the Harvard Graduate School of Design on this topic.  We hope to bring on a senior fellow to manage a research project in the next year.  We are interested in long-term, real time, monitoring.  I found a few references on this from Australia.  In general, we think this type of monitoring is essential to the future of tourism management.  And you?

Dear Jan,

I would like to recommend you the article:4 Real-World Examples of How a Visitor Management System Helped Our Customers

Posted by Dan Ryan on Jun 24, 2016, http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers and some links:http://insights.identicard.com/blog/4-real-world-examples-of-how-a-visitor-management-system-helped-our-customers, http://www.parksandbenefits.net/images/stories/downloads/Visitormanagement/visitor_management_strategy_final.pdf

Best regards

Barbara

Thanks, Barbara. Much appreciated.

Thanks, Megan. We are taking more of a business approach for integrated ski resorts. We are looking to use data on guests and their flows to recommend activities or a skilift with less waiting time that also features slopes within their skiing level. So the focus is less on monitoring from a conservation perspective and more on optimising visitor flows and experiences. As the methods and technology behind both approaches are the same, I'll be interested to hear about your experiences.

All the best

Jan

Jan and Barbara,

Thanks for this input.  I am looking for concepts that relate to measuring tourism's cumulative impacts.  You are both working on different aspects of managing visitor flows and numbers.

I want to launch a new project on geodesign for tourism monitoring next year.

Megan