Forecasting tourism-generated employment: The case of Denmark

Tourism Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-176

  Witt, Stephen F ^a   Song, Haiyan ^a   Wanhill, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Tourism employment forecasts; Tourist expenditure forecasts; Vector autoregressive model

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; TOURISM MARKET; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 3042820606     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000004323142407     Document Type: Article

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