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dc.contributor.authorChan, Felix
dc.contributor.authorLim, C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T11:54:15Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T11:54:15Z
dc.date.created2012-04-01T20:01:13Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationChan, Felix and Lim, Christine. 2011. Spectral analysis of seasonality in tourism demand. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 81 (7): pp. 1409-1418.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16166
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.matcom.2010.06.005
dc.description.abstract

This paper aims to analyse the seasonality in New Zealand tourism demand from Australia and the USA using spectral analysis. Tourism demand is divided into four different categories depending on the tourists’ visiting purposes as registered in the customs cards upon their arrivals in New Zealand. Spectral analysis based on the sample from January 1980 to December 2007 revealed that different travel purposes share similar cyclical components but their contributions to the total variation in tourism demand differ between travel purposes and markets. More importantly, the results show that analysing aggregated data is often not sufficient to reveal the underlying seasonal patterns of tourist arrivals and policy makers would benefit greatly by analysing disaggregated data rather than relying on the analysis of aggregated data alone.

dc.publisherElsevier Science
dc.subjectperiodogram
dc.subjectfast fourier transform
dc.subjectspectral analysis
dc.subjecttourism demand
dc.titleSpectral analysis of seasonality in tourism demand
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume81
dcterms.source.startPage1409
dcterms.source.endPage1418
dcterms.source.issn0378-4754
dcterms.source.titleMathematics and Computers in Simulation
curtin.departmentSchool of Economics and Finance
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