Predicting Tourism Demand in the Western Greece Region Using Independent Component Analysis

Athanasios Koutras (), Alkiviadis Panagopoulos and Ioannis A. Nikas
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Athanasios Koutras: Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece
Alkiviadis Panagopoulos: Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece
Ioannis A. Nikas: Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece

A chapter in Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation, 2016, pp 361-375 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper we propose a new technique to forecast tourism demand based on Independent Component Analysis. The proposed method uses Dynamic Embedding (DE) to transform the time series in a higher dimensional space, where Independent Component Analysis is performed to estimate the independent components (sources). Prediction is then applied using well known forecasting techniques based on ARIMA models on each independent component, and the estimated ICs are transformed back into the data space to estimate the prediction. Experiments conducted using real data of tourism demand showing the occupancy of all tourist accommodations (except from camping sites) of the Western Region of Greece, have proven the efficacy of the proposed forecasting method compared to well-known methods based on ARIMA models, for various prediction steps.

Keywords: ARIMA; Independent Component Analysis; Tourism demand forecasting; Forecasting model; Western Greece tourism; Time-series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_25

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