“…Among these issues, studies where the relationship between tourism revenues and economic growth is tested (Gunduz & Hatemi-J, 2005;Öztürk & Acaravcı, 2009;Gökovalı, 2010;Ertugrul & Mangir, 2015: Hüseyni et al, 2017Qin et al, 2018;Wu & Wu, 2018) stand out. Another of the study topics that the authors focus on is the determinants of tourism revenues, such as foreign visitor statistics, total investment amount, employment, number of beds, real exchange rates (Payne & Mervar, 2002;Kara et al, 2003;Aktaş et al, 2014;Kaplan & Aktas, 2016;Akay et al, 2017;Ongan et al, 2017;Çalışkan et al, 2019). As an alternative to the statistical forecasting methods commonly used in the field of tourism, use of machine learning methods for forecasting studies is evident in recent years.…”