Designing an artificial neural network for forecasting tourism time series

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 781-790

  Palmer, Alfonso ^a   José Montaño, Juan ^a   Sesé, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Tourism forecasting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; NETWORK DESIGN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33745933319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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