An advanced approach to forecasting tourism demand in Taiwan

Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 15-24

  Huarng, Kun Huang ^a   Moutinho, Luiz ^b   Hui Kuang, Tiffany ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fuzzy time series; Neural networks; Structure breaks; Tourist numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548528336     PISSN: 10548408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J073v21n04_03     Document Type: Article

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