Forecasting U.S. Tourist arrivals using optimal Singular Spectrum Analysis

Tourism Management

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 322-335

  Hassani, Hossein ^a,b   Webster, Allan ^a   Silva, Emmanuel Sirimal ^a   Heravi, Saeed ^c  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b International Institute for Energy Studies (IIES)   (Iran)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Exponential smoothing; Forecasting; Neural networks; Singular spectrum analysis; Tourism demand; Tourist arrivals; United States

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SMOOTHING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOURISM; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; FORECASTING METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905372214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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