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Overview

Noam Shoval is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, particularly focusing on transportation and tourism studies. Their research explores diverse aspects of tourism, urban transport, human mobility, and related social dynamics, contributing to a better understanding of spatial movement patterns and tourism development.

Shoval's main research fields include:

  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study encompass:

  • Transportation
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The primary topics addressed in Shoval's work are:

  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Wine Industry and Tourism
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Cruise Tourism Development and Management
  • Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

Shoval has co-authored with several researchers, including:

  • Rotem Mashkov
  • Amit Birenboim
  • Chek Hooi Wong
  • Moon-Ho Ringo Ho
  • Jinyan Chen

The publication venues frequently featuring Shoval's work include:

  • Tourism Geographies
  • International Journal of Tourism Cities
  • Journal of Travel Research
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Journal of Planning Education and Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Noam Shoval highlight the use of advanced data collection and analysis methods in tourism and mobility research:

  • "Gateways for intra-national tourism flows: measured using two types of tracking technologies," 2020, International Journal of Tourism Cities
  • "Tracking tourist mobility in the big data era: insights from data, theory, and future directions," 2024, Tourism Geographies
  • "Using high-resolution GPS data to create a tourism Intensity-Density Index," 2023, Tourism Geographies
  • "Merchants' response towards urban tourism development in food markets," 2020, International Journal of Tourism Cities
  • "Measurement of Visitors' Subjective and Objective Emotional Response to Congestion in Public Spaces," 2024, Journal of Travel Research

Best Publications

  • Tracking tourists in the digital age

    Noam Shoval;Michal Isaacson

  • Hotel location and tourist activity in cities

    Noam Shoval;Bob McKercher;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • First and Repeat Visitor Behaviour: GPS Tracking and GIS Analysis in Hong Kong

    Bob McKercher;Noam Shoval;Erica Ng;Amit Birenboim

  • Sequence Alignment as a Method for Human Activity Analysis in Space and Time

    Noam Shoval;Michal Isaacson

  • The use of tracking technologies in tourism research: the first decade

    Noam Shoval;Rein Ahas

  • Tracking technologies and urban analysis

    Noam Shoval

  • A New Phase in the Competition for the Olympic Gold: The London and New York Bids for the 2012 Games

    Noam Shoval

  • Application of Tracking Technologies to the Study of Pedestrian Spatial Behavior

    Michal Isaacson;Noam Shoval

  • Tourist Mobility and Advanced Tracking Technologies

    Noam Shoval;Michal Isaacson

  • Categorization of tourist attractions and the modeling of tourist cities: based on the co-plot method of multivariate analysis

    Noam Shoval;Adi Raveh

  • Cruise passengers' behavior at the destination: Investigation using GPS technology

    Stefano De Cantis;Mauro Ferrante;Alon Kahani;Noam Shoval;Noam Shoval

  • Real-Time Measurement of Tourists’ Objective and Subjective Emotions in Time and Space:

    Noam Shoval;Yonatan Schvimer;Maya Tamir

  • Typologies of tourists’ time–space consumption: a new approach using GPS data and GIS tools

    A. Yair Grinberger;Noam Shoval;Bob McKercher

  • Families’ and Professional Caregivers’ Views of Using Advanced Technology to Track People With Dementia

    Ruth Landau;Gail K. Auslander;Shirli Werner;Noam Shoval

  • Temporal Activity Patterns of Theme Park Visitors

    Amit Birenboim;Salvador Anton-Clavé;Antonio Paolo Russo;Noam Shoval

  • The use of advanced tracking technologies for the analysis of mobility in Alzheimer's disease and related cognitive diseases.

    Noam Shoval;Gail K Auslander;Tim Freytag;Ruth Landau

  • The Geography of Hotels in Cities: An Empirical Validation of a Forgotten Model

    Noam Shoval

  • Tracking technologies and urban analysis: Adding the emotional dimension

    Noam Shoval;Yonatan Schvimer;Maya Tamir

  • The [Limited] Impact of Weather on Tourist Behavior in an Urban Destination

    Bob McKercher;Noam Shoval;Eerang Park;Alon Kahani

  • Urban hotel development patterns in the face of political shifts

    Noam Shoval;Kobi Cohen-Hattab

  • Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone

    Amit Birenboim;Noam Shoval

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Werner Wahl
Hans-Werner Wahl Heidelberg University
Maya Tamir
Maya Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mei-Po Kwan
Mei-Po Kwan Chinese University of Hong Kong

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