Tourism forecasting: Accuracy of alternative econometric models

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-141

  Song, Haiyan ^a   Witt, Stephen F ^a,b   Jensen, Thomas C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Regional/Tourism Research   (Denmark)

^c DANISH ENERGY AGENCY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accuracy comparisons; Econometric models; Tourism forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037249451     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2070(01)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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