International Journal of Geo-Information Article Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Urban Tourism Travel by Taxi—A Case Study of Shenzhen Bing He 1 , Kang Liu 1,2,3,*, Zhe Xue 1, Jiajun Liu 4, Diping Yuan 5, Jiyao Yin 5 and Guohua Wu 5,6 1 Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China;
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[email protected] Abstract: Tourism networks are an important research part of tourism geography. Despite the significance of transportation in shaping tourism networks, current studies have mainly focused on the “daily behavior” of urban travel at the expense of tourism travel, which has been regarded as an “exceptional behavior”. To fill this gap, this study proposes a framework for exploring the spatial and Citation: He, B.; Liu, K.; Xue, Z.; temporal characteristics of urban tourism travel by taxi. We chose Shenzhen, a densely populated Liu, J.; Yuan, D.; Yin, J.; Wu, G.