Ant colony optimization approach for estimating tourism receipts and expenditures: The case of Turkey

Tourism Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 651-663

  Duran Toksari, M ^a   Toksari, Murat ^b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Forecasting; Modeling; Tourism forecast; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869039289     PISSN: 10835423     EISSN: 19433999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/108354209X12597959359293     Document Type: Article

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