Tourist Node (TN):
As we lack traces of tourist activity, we develop a new “TouristActivityBased” movement model to simulate tourists’ behaviour and nature of visits in different places.
We assume that tourists visit a place, perform an activity, e.g. taking photos and then move onto another place.
Using publiclyavailable tourist data3 we choose different probabilities for 10 different POIs for tourists.
We do the same for all tourists nodes in our simulation. POIs include historical sites (e.g., St Andrews Castle, St Andrews Cathedral, etc), entertainment places (e.g., golf club, cinema, etc) or places that they might visit to collect specific information about the town (e.g., the tourist information centre).
Tourists generate one message every 9 to 10 minutes while visiting tourist spots.