Tourism forecast combination using the stochastic frontier analysis technique

Ji Wu, Xian Cheng and Stephen Shaoyi Liao
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Ji Wu: 26469Sun Yat-sen University, China
Xian Cheng: 56711Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Stephen Shaoyi Liao: 53025City University of Hong Kong, China

Tourism Economics, 2020, vol. 26, issue 7, 1086-1107

Abstract: Forecast combination has received a great deal of attention in the tourism domain. In this article, we propose a novel performance-based tourism forecast combination model by applying a multiple-criteria decision-making framework and the stochastic frontier analysis technique to determine combination weights for individual tourism forecast models. Thirteen time-series models are used to generate individual forecast tourism models, and five competing forecast combination models are selected to evaluate the forecast performance. Using the tourism forecast competition data set, we conclude that the proposed combination model significantly and statistically outperforms the five competing combination models in most cases based on multiple performance indicators. Our results show that the proposed model offers a good solution to identify optimal weights for individual tourism forecast models.

Keywords: forecast combination; SFA; time-series model; tourism forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816619868089

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