Cultural ecosystem services evaluation using geolocated social media data: a review

Abstract

Cultural Ecosystem Service (CES) evaluation is the basis for various environmental management and policymaking for nature-based tourism destinations including national parks. As an innovative data sourcing method, geolocated social media data promotes the rapid growth in CES research. Based on 58 empirical research articles using geolocated social media data, we review the current status and challenges of CES research and suggest some future CES research directions. We find that current geolocated social media based quantitative CES evaluation studies concentrate in photo density analysis, quantitative analysis of photo contents, photo viewshed analysis and economic values analysis. We also find that factors affecting CES spatial and temporal distributions fall in two major categories: biophysical and social/infrastructure. We think that future CES research can be improved by theoretical extension, methodological integration and service co-creation.

摘要

生态系统文化服务(CES)的评估是包括国家公园在内的基于自然的旅游目的地环境管理和决策的基础。作为一种创新的数据获取方法, 包含地理位置信息的定位社交媒体数据推动了CES研究的快速增长。基于58篇利用定位社交媒体数据的实证研究文献, 本文评述CES研究的现状与挑战, 并提出未来CES研究的方向。本研究发现目前基于定位社交媒体数据的CES定量研究集中在照片密度分析、对照片内容的定性分析、照片视域分析以及经济价值分析等方面。研究同时发现影响CES时空分布的因子分为两大类：生物学类和社会与基础设施类。作者认为未来CES研究可在CES的理论拓展、方法整合和服务共创方面取得进步。

Keywords:

• cultural ecosystem services (CES)
• service evaluation
• recreation
• crowdsourcing geographic information
• geo-tagged photo
• social media

关键词:

• 生态系统文化服务(CES)
• 服务评估
• 休闲
• 众筹地理信息
• 地理标记照片
• 社交媒体

Additional information

Funding

This research was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant #41971254.

Notes on contributors

Hongmei Zhang

Hongmei Zhang is a professor at Shanghai Institute of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, China. Her current research interests include consumer behavior in tourism, tourism destination marketing, pro-environmental behavior and national park. Her work has been published in leading tourism journals including Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, etc. Email: [email protected]

Ruihong Huang

Ray Huang is an associate professor at the Northern Arizona University, U.S. His research interests include Geographic Information Systems (GIS), GIS for transportation, spatial modeling and simulation, transit-based accessibility, etc. Email: [email protected]

Yechen Zhang

Yechen Zhang is a Ph.D candidate at School of Geography and Tourism, Anhui Normal University, China. His current research addresses the field of sustainable tourism and national park. Email: [email protected]

Dimitrios Buhalis

Dimitrios Buhalis is a full professor in Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University. His research interests include smart tourism, experience management, accessible and special diet tourism. Email: [email protected]