Forecasting tourism growth with State-Dependent Models

Bo Guan, Emmanuel Sirimal Silva, Hossein Hassani and Saeed Heravi

Annals of Tourism Research, 2022, vol. 94, issue C

Abstract: We introduce two forecasting methods based on a general class of non-linear models called ‘State-Dependent Models’ (SDMs) for tourism demand forecasting. Using a Monte Carlo simulation which generated data from linear and non-linear models, we evidence how estimations from SDMs can capture the level shifts pattern and nonlinearity in data. Next, we apply two new forecasting methods based on SDMs to forecast tourism demand growth in Japan. The forecasts are compared with classical recursive SDM forecasting, Naïve forecasting, ARIMA, Exponential Smoothing, Neural Network models, Time varying parameters, Smooth Transition Autoregressive models, and with a linear regression model with two dummy variables. We find that improvements in forecasting with the proposed SDM-based forecasting methods are more pronounced in the longer-term horizons.

Keywords: State-Dependent Models; Tourism demand; Forecasting; Non-linear; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103385

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