Modelling and Forecasting Tourist Flows to Barbados Using Structural Time Series Models

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Jackman, Mahalia ^a   Greenidge, Kevin ^a  

^a CENTRAL BANK OF BARBADOS   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Barbados; forecasting; modelling; structural time series; tourism demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449095492     PISSN: 14673584     EISSN: 17429692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/thr.2009.23     Document Type: Article

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