Improving Tourist Arrival Prediction: A Big Data and Artificial Neural Network Approach

Because of high fluctuations of tourism demand, accurate predictions of tourist arrivals are of high importance for tourism organizations. The study at hand presents an approach to enhance autoregr...

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