Forecasting tourism demand: A cubic polynomial approach

Tourism Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-218

  Chu, Fong Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cubic polynomial function; Forecasting; Mean absolute percentage errors; Mean shift outlier model; Predictive error; Singapore; Studentized residuals; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MARKET CONDITIONS; METHODOLOGY; TOURISM MARKET;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SINGAPORE (NTN)]; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 1142281100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-5177(03)00086-4     Document Type: Article

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