Tourism forecasting: To combine or not to combine?

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1068-1078

  Wong, Kevin K F ^a   Song, Haiyan ^a   Witt, Stephen F ^a   Wu, Doris C ^a  

^a THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Combination forecasting; Econometric model; Forecasting accuracy; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONG KONG;

EID: 33947592183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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