Abstract The development of tourism typologies allows the identification of various dimensions of this important sector and can be used in tourism planning and management. In this study we developed a novel and systematic classification of European Union (EU) regions according to the predominant location of hotels, distinguishing among four distinct geographical areas: coastal zones, mountain and natural areas, cities and rural areas. For this purpose, we use Geographical Information Systems to integrate regional boundaries and the geographical zoning with a detailed dataset of hotel location and capacity. We then classified the EU regions into five typologies with the assistance of a hierarchical clustering algorithm. Further exploration of the results shows very distinct tourism profiles across the identified typologies in terms of tourism intensity, seasonality and other traits.

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基于酒店区位模式和地理标准的新欧洲区域旅游类型学

摘要 旅游类型学的发展可以识别这一重要部门的各个方面，并可用于旅游规划和管理。在这项研究中，我们根据酒店的主要位置对欧盟 (EU) 地区进行了一种新颖而系统的分类，区分了四个不同的地理区域：沿海地区、山区和自然地区、城市和农村地区。为此，我们使用地理信息系统将区域边界和地理分区与酒店位置和容量的详细数据集相结合。然后我们在层次聚类算法的帮助下将欧盟地区分为五种类型。