Transportation accessibility to and within tourist attractions in the Old City of Jerusalem

Israeli, Yechezkel; Mansfeld, Yoel

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“…(Kahtani, Xia, & Veenendaal, 2011) evaluated accessibility not only from transportation and geographic proximity perspective, but also from the perspective of available quality functions and facilities at tourist attractions. (Israeli & Mansfeld, 2003)examined the factors influencing the transportation accessibility of tourist attractions and identified accessibility, traffic congestion, transportation infrastructure and services, spatial concentration of flow, time concentration of flow, inadequate tourist supply, and inadequate information system as factors influencing transportation accessibility within the old city of Jerusalem. (Gaman, 2014) studied the influence of transport accessibility on tourist accommodation facilities of health resorts situated in Carpathian areas, which presented lowest level of transport accessibility and subsequently the influence of accessibility on tourist accommodation facilities was very low.…”

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A Review of Dimensions of Tourism Transport affecting Tourist Satisfaction

Virkar¹,

Mallya²

2018

Indian Journal of Commerce &Amp; Management Studies

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A Review of Dimensions of Tourism Transport affecting Tourist Satisfaction

Virkar¹,

Mallya²

2018

Indian Journal of Commerce &Amp; Management Studies

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“…Using the case of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israeli & Mansfeld [32] investigated the interrelations between urban tourism and transportation systems needed to support tourist activities. The study first characterized the parameters influencing the level of accessibility of tourist flows to the main tourist attractions of Jerusalem.…”

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Assessing transport policies for tourist mobility based on accessibility indicators

Coppola¹,

Carbone

Aveta

et al. 2020

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Tourism is a key sector in the national economies, representing a real asset for increasing the competitiveness and the world-wide visibility of a Country. In Italy, the widespread diffusion of the tourist heritage represents a great potential for the economic development but requires efforts to identify sustainable and seamless travel solutions, given the limited resources available for tourist mobility. The Italian National Plan of Tourist Mobility identifies in accessibility one of the key drivers for investment, and to this aim has developed a Planning Support System (PSS) to identify the investments to bridge up the accessibility gap of national tourist sites from the main airports, ports and railway stations (i.e. the “access gates” to the Country), either on the road network or using collective transport services. The PSS is based on the methodology presented in this paper, combining two concepts extensively studied in the literature, i.e. the generalized travel cost and the accessibility, in order to identify where and how to invest either to improve existing mobility services or to build new infrastructure. Given the number of tourist sites scattered over the national territory, the application of the proposed methodology to the Italian case study represents a relevant example of how accessibility measures can be applied in practice to link with policy goals and to identify planning priorities. The application is easily replicable and transferable at regional and local level.

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“…99), its service is very infrequent, and it fails to provide an effective tourist-oriented service. Hence, the lack of tourist-oriented services, pointed out more than a decade ago by Israeli and Mansfeld [13], has not been improved in the interim, and major sites, which constitute the world image of Jerusalem, continue to be under-served.…”

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“…A third, costlier option is to provide tour-Journal of Geographic Information System ist-oriented specialized services such as frequent hop-on hop-off services, particularly in peak tourist season. Such a service, suggested long ago by Israeli and Mansfeld (2003), may be difficult to sustain due to the variances in tourist flows, and the political tensions in the city. A somewhat cheaper alternative may be shuttle services to the main LRT stations, such as operated by Yad Vashem.…”

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“…Tourists in such unfamiliar urban settings seek to visit various attractions in a limited amount of time and often with a limited budget [10] [11]. Hence, the compatibility of the public transport system with tourists' demands has widespread implications for tourists' visitation experience [12] [13]. For this reason, the International Association of Public Transport stated in its directive from 2003, that the public transportation sector must adapt itself to the growing needs of tourism.…”

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The City Public Transport Overlooked: Analysis of Effective Distances

Rotem-Mindali¹,

Feitelson²,

Yaron³

2017

JGIS

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Jerusalem is holy to the three main monotheistic religions. Hence Jerusalem is, from a touristic perspective, a world city. Jerusalem is also a highly segmented city. While Jerusalem may seem as an extreme case, it is not unique. Many cities attract large number of tourists to various widely renowned sites within them, in many cases with religious facets. Public transport systems are largely designed to address the demand of local residents. Yet, tourist flows often differ from the travel patterns of local residents, both temporally and spatially. This paper evaluates how Jerusalem's public transport system serves the global tourist city. To this end, the study focuses on independent tourists, not package-tour tourists. Specifically, we analyze to what extent are the main tourist sites served by the public transportation system. To evaluate accessibility to tourist destinations we use GIS to conduct Least-Cost-Modeling. This methodology measures the effective, rather than the Euclidian distance to tourist destination. We find that the accessibility by public transportation to tourist destinations with high global importance, specifically Christian-religious sites is relatively low. In the final part of the paper we propose a number of explanations for that.

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Transportation accessibility to and within tourist attractions in the Old City of Jerusalem

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

A Review of Dimensions of Tourism Transport affecting Tourist Satisfaction

A Review of Dimensions of Tourism Transport affecting Tourist Satisfaction

Assessing transport policies for tourist mobility based on accessibility indicators

The City Public Transport Overlooked: Analysis of Effective Distances

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