Analysis of tourism demand serial dependence structure for forecasting

Liang Zhu, Christine Lim, Wenjun Xie and Yuan Wu
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Liang Zhu: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Christine Lim: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wenjun Xie: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yuan Wu: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Tourism Economics, 2017, vol. 23, issue 7, 1419-1436

Abstract: This study aims to extend knowledge of serial dependence structure in tourism demand modelling and make a contribution to tourism forecasting with the use of copula method. Analysis of serial dependence can reveal the impact of current tourism demand on the future. This is important for tourism demand forecasting, as the prediction of future tourism demand relies highly on the historical demand information. However, serial dependence, especially its structure, has received very little attention in previous tourism research. The copula method is flexible as it provides various functions to specify different serial dependence structures and allows arbitrary distributions of tourism demand. We used five types of copulas to analyse two-dimensional serial dependence structure for 10 arrivals series to Singapore. The empirical findings show that serial dependence structures of arrivals can be non-linear. Additionally, the Student- t copula generates forecasts of tourism demand with higher accuracy than the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and seasonal ARIMA models.

Keywords: copula method; forecasting performance; serial dependence structure; tourism demand; univariate time series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816617693964

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