Forecasting hotel room demand using search engine data

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-210

  Pan, Bing ^a   Wu, Doris Chenguang ^b   Song, Haiyan ^c  

^a School of Business   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Demand for hotel rooms; Econometric models; Forecasts; Google trends; Hotels; Internet; Search engines; Search query volume; Time series analysis; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869212320     PISSN: 17579880     EISSN: 17579899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17579881211264486     Document Type: Article

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