Comparing spatial centrality of Sadaabad Palace tourist attractions for national and international visitors

Abstract

Spatial analysis of tourists’ demands is crucially important for tourism destinations management and marketing. This research aims to compare the spatial centralities of the tourism attractions of Sa'd Abad historical complex for national and foreign visitors. In doing so, data from the ticket sales system were used to construct the proximity matrix using the concept of interlocking-visit and via Python programming. Then the spatial centrality of the attractions was calculated by NetworkX software. The result shows that, Museums of the Mellat Palace, the Green Palace, the Museum of the Royal Cars have the highest degree centralities and Museums of Art, Miramad Museum, Behzad Museum have the lowest degree centrality for both groups. The major difference between the two groups' demands was the royal attractions. The Museums of Royal Cars, Royal Dishes, Court Weapons, and the Royal Kitchen have become more central to domestic tourists than foreign tourists.

Keywords

• network analysis tourism demand tourist attractions interlocking-visit spatial centrality