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Modelling Tourism in Australia Based on Periodic Autoregressive Time Series Models

Received: 27 July 2021     Accepted: 9 August 2021     Published: 19 August 2021
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Abstract

Tourism has become very important in international commerce and also represents one of the main sources of income for some developing countries in the world. It is the act of people travelling and staying in a place outside their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes, and this may include sightseeing, camping, retreats, etc Tourism is one of the key economic growth contributors and has contributed towards complete growth and development of Australia by bringing numerous economic value and benefits to her, and also building her brand value, image and identity. This paper seeks to generate a periodic autoregressive PAR model that could be used to make reliable forecast for tourism in Australia. Periodic autoregressive models are for seasonally observed data, particularly quarterly and monthly. Its’ parameters take different values across the seasons. The data used in this work was extracted from the official website of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), (www.abs.gov.au). It consists of monthly historical data of the number of short term visitors in Australia from January 1998 to December 2017 and was analysed using R- statistical software. The result revealed the order of the PAR model, and also verified that there is periodic variation (periodicity) in the tourism data. It was also verified that there is existence of single unit root and periodic integration which led to the fitting of periodic integrated autoregressive (PIAR(2)) model as the suitable model for the Australian tourism data. Finally, the residual generated from the model was subjected to statistical test and it showed a white noise behavior. Based on these findings, it is concluded that periodic autoregressive time series model can be used to generate reliable forecast for Australian tourism data. Further research on the stochastic nature and seasonality of Australian tourism data was recommended.

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Journal (Volume 10, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.pamj.20211004.12
Page(s) 96-103
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Keywords

Periodicity, Periodic Autoregression, Residual, Tourism, Likelihood Ratio

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  • Department of Statistics, Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

  • Department of Maths/Statistics, School of Science, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Nigeria

  • Department of Maths/Statistics, School of Science, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Nigeria

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