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Unlike GPS data, CDRs are relatively poor in spatial resolution with low sampling rates, which makes it a big challenge to identify group members from thousands of tourists. Moreover, since touristic trips are not on a regular basis, no historical data of the specific group can be used to reduce the uncertainty of trajectories. To address such challenges, we propose a method called group movement pattern mining based on similarity (GMPMS) to discover tourist groups. To avoid large amounts of trajectory similarity measurements, snapshots of the trajectories are firstly generated to extract candidate groups containing co-occurring tourists. Then, considering that different groups may follow the same itineraries, additional traveling behavioral features are defined to identify the group members. Finally, with Hainan province as an example, we provide a number of interesting insights of travel behaviors of group tours as well as individual tours, which will be helpful for tourism planning and management.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi8020074","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,5]],"date-time":"2019-02-05T11:31:07Z","timestamp":1549366267000},"page":"74","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Exploring Group Movement Pattern through Cellular Data: A Case Study of Tourists in Hainan"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Xinning","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Tianyue","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Zheng","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Jiansong","family":"Miao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,2,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"266","DOI":"10.1109\/TKDE.2009.202","article-title":"Mining group movement patterns for tracking moving objects efficiently","volume":"23","author":"Tsai","year":"2011","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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