Booking horizon forecasting with dynamic updating: A case study of hotel reservation data

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 942-960

  Haensel, Alwin ^a,b   Koole, Ger ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Bookit BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Demand forecasting; Dimension reduction; Dynamic forecast updating; Penalized least squares; Revenue management; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956360947     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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