Abstract:This paper adopts a model-free approach to forecasting monthly international tourist arrivals to Australia from four major origin countries: New Zealand, UK, the USA, and China. While most researchers use parametric methodologies to model tourism demand, this study proposes a non-parametric approach that employs a 'Partitive Simulation Process' or PASIP by partitioning the original monthly time series into 12 sub-series according to the month. Both ordinary and time-weighted non-parametric bootstraps are used,… Show more
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