A new paper by PhD Candidate has just been published in the !
A chapter from my dissertation has been recently published in . This paper, titled 鈥鈥 presents material from a series of interviews that I conducted with tourism planners in Nova Scotia.
The most popular post (by far) on this blog is one where I present a simple version of Butler鈥檚 Tourism Area Lifecycle (TALC), done up in Excel: A Simple Tourism Model with Excel
I鈥檝e made some major alterations to TourSim, both in the data that it relies on, and the types of experimentation it supports. I鈥檓 thinking that this is going to make TourSim much more usable for tourism planning, and begins to incorporate many of the ideas of complexity science (such as adaptation) into TourSim.
While there is quite a bit of interest in several fields in agent-based models (ABMs) as an approach to studying issues such as resilience, and thresholds, their complexity and technical nature is a significant barrier to their use. I鈥檝e had a number of discussions with McGill professor about alternate modeling approaches. One technology that he uses in both classes and in his publications is a simple Excel spreadsheet.