Low cost inferential forecasting and tourism demand in accommodation industry

Tourismos

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 47-68

  Psillakis, Zaharias ^a   Panagopoulos, Alkiviadis ^b   Kanellopoulos, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Expost and exante forecasts; Forecast accuracy and validation; Forecasting models; Na ve models; Time series; Tourism demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952936500     PISSN: 17908418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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