Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts

Nowadays, the tourism industry has become one of the most important sectors in the world economy. Due to the perishability of this industry, accurate forecasting of the demand is very important for tourism planning and resource allocation. Studies show that due to the diversity and complexity of the...

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Main Authors: Elaheh Malekzadeh Hamedani, Marjan Kaedi, Zahra Zojaji
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Published: University of science and culture 2022-07-01
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description Nowadays, the tourism industry has become one of the most important sectors in the world economy. Due to the perishability of this industry, accurate forecasting of the demand is very important for tourism planning and resource allocation. Studies show that due to the diversity and complexity of the factors affecting tourism demand, the combination of different approaches may increase the forecasting accuracy. The aim of this paper is to forecast the tourism demand of Alisadr cave. For this purpose, a method based on artificial neural networks is presented, in which the results of linear and non-linear methods and short-term and long-term forecasts are combined. This method is applied to a dataset of Alisadr cave tourists. The evaluation results show that in most cases, the proposed combined method can predict the tourism demand with higher accuracy than the monthly and seasonal methods based on neural networks and random forest models. The predictive models obtained from this study can enhance customer service and improve the interaction between users and tourist ticketing web applications and online reservation programs.
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spelling doaj-art-0676be1fe3954fbf9bd7668d026c0f3d2025-01-04T09:50:57ZengUniversity of science and cultureInternational Journal of Web Research2645-43432022-07-0152475310.22133/ijwr.2022.362392.1134Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term ForecastsElaheh Malekzadeh Hamedani 0Marjan Kaedi 1Zahra Zojaji2Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, IranFaculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, IranFaculty of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan, IranNowadays, the tourism industry has become one of the most important sectors in the world economy. Due to the perishability of this industry, accurate forecasting of the demand is very important for tourism planning and resource allocation. Studies show that due to the diversity and complexity of the factors affecting tourism demand, the combination of different approaches may increase the forecasting accuracy. The aim of this paper is to forecast the tourism demand of Alisadr cave. For this purpose, a method based on artificial neural networks is presented, in which the results of linear and non-linear methods and short-term and long-term forecasts are combined. This method is applied to a dataset of Alisadr cave tourists. The evaluation results show that in most cases, the proposed combined method can predict the tourism demand with higher accuracy than the monthly and seasonal methods based on neural networks and random forest models. The predictive models obtained from this study can enhance customer service and improve the interaction between users and tourist ticketing web applications and online reservation programs. https://ijwr.usc.ac.ir/article_164086_132e5e709608e37f177c011a747d2249.pdfdemand forecastingtourismalisadr caveneural networkscombined forecasting
spellingShingle Elaheh Malekzadeh Hamedani
Marjan Kaedi
Zahra Zojaji
Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
International Journal of Web Research
demand forecasting
tourism
alisadr cave
neural networks
combined forecasting
title Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
title_full Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
title_fullStr Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
title_full_unstemmed Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
title_short Forecasting Alisadr Cave Tourism Demand using Combination of Short-term and Long-term Forecasts
title_sort forecasting alisadr cave tourism demand using combination of short term and long term forecasts
topic demand forecasting
tourism
alisadr cave
neural networks
combined forecasting
url https://ijwr.usc.ac.ir/article_164086_132e5e709608e37f177c011a747d2249.pdf
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