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Network, tourism

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A tourism system is complex and dynamic but may be described as a network providing a means to representing the interactions among its different components. In general, a network is a picture of the connections or relationships among a set of objects (people, hence stakeholder network or social network; organizations, hence organizational network; aviation routes, hence route network). Formal analysis of networks (or network analysis) began in the mathematical field of graph theory, a branch of topology. A graph is an abstract mathematical object composed of nodes (vertices, actors) connected by relationships (links, edges) and can be represented by a matrix (adjacency matrix), thus allowing the use of linear algebra analysis methods.

These methods were applied in sociology to the study of social networks and the relations among sets of people (actors), predicated on the belief that a person’s behavior is affected by that person’s position and the structural properties of the network....

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  1. Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, 4111, Gold Coast, Australia

    Noel Scott

  2. Economics and Tourism, Bocconi University, Via Roberto Sarfatti, 25, 20100, Milan, Italy

    Rodolfo Baggio

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  2. School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

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Scott, N., Baggio, R. (2015). Network, tourism. In: Jafari, J., Xiao, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_284-1

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