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Predicting Tourism Demand in the Western Greece Region Using Independent Component Analysis

In: Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

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  • Athanasios Koutras

    (Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece)

  • Alkiviadis Panagopoulos

    (Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece)

  • Ioannis A. Nikas

    (Technical Educational Institute of Western Greece)

Abstract

In this paper we propose a new technique to forecast tourism demand based on Independent Component Analysis. The proposed method uses Dynamic Embedding (DE) to transform the time series in a higher dimensional space, where Independent Component Analysis is performed to estimate the independent components (sources). Prediction is then applied using well known forecasting techniques based on ARIMA models on each independent component, and the estimated ICs are transformed back into the data space to estimate the prediction. Experiments conducted using real data of tourism demand showing the occupancy of all tourist accommodations (except from camping sites) of the Western Region of Greece, have proven the efficacy of the proposed forecasting method compared to well-known methods based on ARIMA models, for various prediction steps.

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  • Athanasios Koutras & Alkiviadis Panagopoulos & Ioannis A. Nikas, 2016. "Predicting Tourism Demand in the Western Greece Region Using Independent Component Analysis," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Vicky Katsoni & Anastasia Stratigea (ed.), Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation, edition 1, pages 361-375, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-319-27528-4_25
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27528-4_25
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