The tourism forecasting competition
| Autor: | Rob J. Hyndman, Doris Chenguang Wu, George Athanasopoulos, Haiyan Song |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
jel:C52
Computer science jel:C53 Exponential smoothing Univariate jel:C22 Vector autoregression Econometric model Tourism forecasting ARIMA Exponential smoothing Time varying parameter model Autoregressive distributed lag model Vector autoregression Statistics Econometrics Probabilistic forecasting Autoregressive integrated moving average Business and International Management Consensus forecast Tourism |
| DOI: | 10.26180/21225860.v1 |
| Popis: | We evaluate the performances of various methods for forecasting tourism data. The data used include 366 monthly series, 427 quarterly series and 518 annual series, all supplied to us by either tourism bodies or academics who had used them in previous tourism forecasting studies. The forecasting methods implemented in the competition are univariate and multivariate time series approaches, and econometric models. This forecasting competition differs from previous competitions in several ways: (i) we concentrate on tourism data only; (ii) we include approaches with explanatory variables; (iii) we evaluate the forecast interval coverage as well as the point forecast accuracy; (iv) we observe the effect of temporal aggregation on the forecasting accuracy; and (v) we consider the mean absolute scaled error as an alternative forecasting accuracy measure. We find that pure time series approaches provide more accurate forecasts for tourism data than models with explanatory variables. For seasonal data we implement three fully automated pure time series algorithms that generate accurate point forecasts, and two of these also produce forecast coverage probabilities which are satisfactorily close to the nominal rates. For annual data we find that Naive forecasts are hard to beat. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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