Mapping time series into networks as a tool to assess the complex dynamics of tourism systems

Rodolfo Baggio and Ruggero Sainaghi

Tourism Management, 2016, vol. 54, issue C, 23-33

Abstract: This paper contributes to filling two gaps: i) the presence of a limited amount of studies focused on tourism demand turning points, ii) the prevalent recourse to linear models in demand analysis, disregarding the complex structure of tourism destinations. The paper uses the Horizontal Visibility Graph Algorithm, a technique able to transform a time series of observations into a network whose topology preserves some fundamental characteristics of the system examined. The empirical work focuses on Livigno, an Italian alpine destination.

Keywords: Tourism destinations; Complex systems; Time series; Tourism demand; Horizontal visibility graph algorithm; Network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.10.008

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