IMPLEMENTATION OF SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION IN THE PREDICTION OF THE NUMBER OF TOURIST VISITS TO THE PROVINCE WEST NUSA TENGGARA (NTB)

Abstract

Abstract — Indonesia has a variety of interesting tourist destinations to visit in each region. One area that is used as a favorite tourist destination is the Province of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB). Data The number of tourists visiting the NTB province from 2014 to 2020 tends to change based on data obtained from the Website of the NTB Provincial Tourism Office. The data on the number of visitors will continue to change, even if there is a possibility that it will increase. This can lead to the unpreparedness of the government and other tourism actors in providing the facilities and infrastructure needed by visitors when there is an increase in the number of tourist visits coming to NTB. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the number of tourist visits to NTB with accurate results. In this study, predictions of the number of tourist visits to the Province of NTB were made using the support vector regression method. This research resulted in an application to predict the number of tourist visits to NTB based on Event, Month, and Year. so that it can provide predictive results that are close to the actual value under normal conditions. The data used in this study is data on the number of tourist visits in 2017-2021 and events held in 2017-2021.