With the ongoing development of information and communications technology, geospatial technologies have become increasingly important in monitoring, managing, and predicting tourism activities. These tools can also uncover tourism’s social, economic, cultural, environmental, and political impacts. In this viewpoint article, we discuss applications of cutting-edge geospatial analysis in tourism studies. Topics include opportunities from emerging geospatial data, a new typology of spatial analysis in tourism studies, spatial analysis with the 4-Ws approach, and humanistic geographic information systems. This paper offers methodological guidance for multi-scale geospatial analyses that are essential to tourism research.

随着信息和通信技术的不断发展，地理空间技术在监测、管理和预测旅游活动方面变得越来越重要。这些工具还可以揭示旅游业的社会、经济、文化、环境和政治影响。在这篇观点文章中，我们讨论了前沿地理空间分析在旅游研究中的应用。主题包括来自新兴地理空间数据的机会、旅游研究中空间分析的新类型学、4-Ws 方法的空间分析以及人文地理信息系统。本文为旅游研究必不可少的多尺度地理空间分析提供了方法论指导。