Abstract

As helpful big data, search engine data (SED) regarding tourism-related factors have currently been introduced to tourist volume prediction, but they have been shown to impact the tourism market on different timescales (or frequency band). This study develops a novel forecasting method using an emerging multiscale analysis—bivariate empirical mode decomposition (BEMD)—to investigate multiscale relationships. Three major steps are performed: (1) SED process to construct an informative index from sufficient SED using statistical analyses, (2) multiscale analysis to extract scale-aligned common factors from the bivariate data of tourist volumes and SED using BEMD, and (3) tourist volume prediction using an SED-based index. In the empirical study, the novel BEMD-based method with SED is used to forecast the tourist volume of Hainan in China, a global tourist attraction, and significantly outperforms both popular techniques (not considering SED or multiscales) and similar variants (considering SED or multiscales) in accuracy and robustness.

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