Scopus Publications
- Putting the periphery on the map: Tourism activity measured with big data
Karol Jan Borowiecki, Maja U Pedersen, Marco Palomeque
Tourism Economics, 2026
This paper examines tourism patterns in peripheral regions, analyzing visitor flows and regional variations using big data from a major travel portal. Covering 10 European peripheral regions from 2016 to 2022, the study maps tourist origins and activity levels, offering insights into how tourism functions in these areas compared to less remote destinations. Our approach, validated against international tourism statistics, maps tourist origins and activity levels, comparing peripheral regions with less remote areas. The findings highlight specific patterns of tourist flows, regional disparities in tourism development, and opportunities for promoting sustainable tourism in underdeveloped regions. The findings reveal specific patterns of tourism dynamics in peripheral regions, contributing to a deeper understanding of how tourism develops in these areas and how it differs from more central destinations. - The Soundtrack of a Crisis: More Positive Music Preferences During Economic and Social Adversity
Marco Palomeque, Juan de-Lucio
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024
This paper studies the positiveness in most consumed songs during a period of sadness, worry and uncertainty: the COVID-19 crisis in comparison with previous years. In order to perform the analysis, we create an original positive music indicator using a dataset of weekly patterns for music consumption in 31 OECD countries over a five year period. Results show that negative shocks from events such as economic business cycles and the COVID-19 pandemic increase the consumption of positive songs, suggesting that society compensates the negative impact on well-being with positive music. We conclude that society adapts sentiment-based music consumption preferences according to the socioeconomic situation. - Music preferences as an instrument of emotional self-regulation along the business cycle
Juan de Lucio, Marco Palomeque
Journal of Cultural Economics, 2023
This paper studies the influence of macroeconomic conditions on subjective well-being and music preferences. The macroeconomic cycle exerts an effect on happiness and well-being that consumers counterbalance by modifying music consumption. We use machine learning techniques to make a weekly classification of the top 100 songs of Billboard Hot 100 into positive and negative lyrics over the period 1958–2019. When unemployment is high, society generally prefers more positive songs. Other macroeconomic indicators such as high inflation, high interest rates or low stock market prices also affect musical preferences. These results provide initial evidence regarding the use of cultural consumption to offset business cycle oscillations. - The sentiment of the lyrics of the songs and their relationship with the musical characteristics
M. Palomeque, J. Lucio
Procesamiento Del Lenguaje Natural, 2021
Los autores agradecen la financiacion recibida por la Comunidad de Madrid y la UAH (ref: EPU-INV/2020/006).
