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Visioning local futures: Agent-based modeling as a tourism planning support system.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visioning local futures: Agent-based modeling as a tourism planning support system./
Author:	Johnson, Peter Allan.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4518.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-12A.
Subject:	Area Planning and Development. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR66417
ISBN:	9780494664179

Visioning local futures: Agent-based modeling as a tourism planning support system.
Johnson, Peter Allan.

Visioning local futures: Agent-based modeling as a tourism planning support system. - 229 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-12, Section: A, page: 4518.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2010.

Often operating within a complicated, poorly understood environment, the process of tourism planning can be a difficult and challenging task. Technological aides have often been applied to the problems of planning, with varying levels of success. One computer simulation method used to study complex human social systems, agent-based modeling (ABM), is an approach that is increasingly used as a way to explore planning-relevant problems. Despite this promise, little work has explored the use of ABM to represent tourism dynamics, or as a support for planning, as evaluated by planners themselves.

ISBN: 9780494664179Subjects--Topical Terms:

1671542
Area Planning and Development.

Visioning local futures: Agent-based modeling as a tourism planning support system.
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520 $a This research addresses these gaps in three steps: (1) by developing the concept of tourism as a phenomenon that is fundamentally individual-based. (2) Formalizing this conceptual framework into an ABM of tourism dynamics set in the tourism-centric Canadian province of Nova Scotia. (3) Providing this ABM for evaluation by tourism planning professionals as a step to identify the specific planning tasks to which this model adds greatest value and individual, technical, and organizational constraints to adoption.
520 $a The results of this research indicate that the use of an ABM-based planning support system (PSS) is strongest as a scenario development tool, providing an environment for formulating 'what if' style questions, data analysis, and a way to communicate results to community members and decision-makers. Despite these benefits, limitations to the ability of modelers to develop highly detailed and validated models emphasize the position of ABM as an emerging technology. Users also reported a lack of transparency in the model. This was attributed to design choices that were intended to make the ABM user-friendly, but also hid the functioning of the model from users. The application of ABM in planning is still a novelty, and this inhibits the confidence planners may have in using an ABM. This serves to illuminate a disconnect between the needs of the planner and what can be delivered with an ABM approach. Reducing this gap is a task that can be completed through further joint development efforts between planners and ABM modelers to more actively build on identified strengths of the ABM approach within planning.
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