Tourism demand modelling and forecasting: How should demand be measured?

Tourism Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-81

  Song, Haiyan ^a   Li, Gang ^b   Witt, Stephen F ^a   Fei, Baogang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forecasting accuracy; Hong Kong; Tourist arrivals; Tourist expenditure

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMETRICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FORECASTING METHOD; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALIA; CHINA; HONG KONG; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952771618     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000010790872213     Document Type: Article

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