Forecasting British tourist arrivals in the Balearic Islands using meteorological variables

Tourism Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-168

  Álvarez Díaz, Marcos ^a   Rosselló Nadal, Jaume ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b Centre de Recerca Econòmica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Balearic Islands; Meteorological variables; Tourism forecasting

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEMAND ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPAIN;

EID: 77952755882     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000010790872079     Document Type: Article

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