Forecasting hotel arrivals and occupancy using Monte Carlo simulation

Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 344-366

  Zakhary, Athanasius ^a   Atiya, Amir F ^b   El Shishiny, Hisham ^c   Gayar, Neamat E ^a  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

demand uncontraining; forecasting by simulation; hotel arrivals forecasting; hotel demand forecasting; Monte Carlo; occupancy forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959896699     PISSN: 14766930     EISSN: 1477657X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rpm.2009.42     Document Type: Article

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