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Authors: Simone Lionetti 1 ; Daniel Pfäffli 1 ; Marc Pouly 1 ; Tim vor der Brück 1 and Philipp Wegelin 2

Affiliations: 1 School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Suurstoffi 1, 6343 Rotkreuz, Switzerland ; 2 School of Business, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Zentralstr. 9, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland

Keyword(s): Forecasting, Tourism, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Feature Importance, Dataset.

Abstract: The ability to make accurate forecasts on the number of customers is a pre-requisite for efficient planning and use of resources in various industries. It also contributes to global challenges of society such as food waste. Tourism is a domain particularly focussed on short-term forecasting for which the existing literature suggests that calendar and weather data are the most important sources for accurate prediction. We collected and make available a dataset with visitor counts over ten years from four different businesses representative for the tourism sector in Switzerland, along with nearly a thousand features comprising weather, calendar, event and lag information. Evaluation of a plethora of machine learning models revealed that even very advanced deep learning models as well as industry benchmarks show performance at most on a par with simple (piecewise) linear models. Notwithstanding the fact that weather and event features are relevant, contrary to expectations, they proved insufficient for high-quality forecasting. Moreover, and again in contradiction to the existing literature, performance could not be improved by including cross-industry data. (More)

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Lionetti, S.; Pfäffli, D.; Pouly, M.; vor der Brück, T. and Wegelin, P. (2021). Tourism Forecast with Weather, Event, and Cross-industry Data. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-484-8; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 1097-1104. DOI: 10.5220/0010323010971104

@conference{icaart21,
author={Simone Lionetti. and Daniel Pfäffli. and Marc Pouly. and Tim {vor der Brück}. and Philipp Wegelin.},
title={Tourism Forecast with Weather, Event, and Cross-industry Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART},
year={2021},
pages={1097-1104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010323010971104},
isbn={978-989-758-484-8},
issn={2184-433X},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART
TI - Tourism Forecast with Weather, Event, and Cross-industry Data
SN - 978-989-758-484-8
IS - 2184-433X
AU - Lionetti, S.
AU - Pfäffli, D.
AU - Pouly, M.
AU - vor der Brück, T.
AU - Wegelin, P.
PY - 2021
SP - 1097
EP - 1104
DO - 10.5220/0010323010971104
PB - SciTePress