News Release on Tourism Forecasting SIG (2009-11-28)

The Tourism Forecasting Special Interest Group (SIG), sponsored by The Hong Kong Tourism Demand Forecasting System (HKTDFS), and hosted by the Forecasting Principles (http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/) was successfully launched on November 26, 2009. This SIG is maintained by Haiyan Song, the Chair Professor of Tourism and Associate Director of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
This is believed to be the first such SIG that builds a useful platform for industry executives, forecasting practitioners, and researchers concerned with tourism forecasting. It offers a comprehensive overview of the basic concepts and methods of tourism demand forecasting. In addition, the tourism forecasting SIG website also contains a large number of recent tourism forecasting publications including books, conference papers, journal articles, reports for practitioners, and working papers related to tourism forecasting. The site is linked to a number of official datasets and computer software sources, which are useful for tourism forecasting practitioners and researchers.
Please visit this SIG at http://tourism.forecastingprinciples.com/index.php.   (hide)

Tourism in Hong Kong Recovers from the Financial/Economic Crisis

This report provides updated forecasts of tourist arrivals to Hong Kong from ten key source markets over the period 2010-2015. The forecasts were generated by the Hong Kong Tourism Demand Forecasting System (www.tourismforecasting.net) and the impacts of the financial/economic crisis on the demand for tourism in Hong Kong were accounted for by the forecasting models in the system. The annual and quarterly forecasts of tourist arrivals to Hong Kong show that tourism in Hong Kong has started to recover from the current financial/economic crisis with the total tourist arrivals in Hong Kong reaching 53.8 million in 2015 representing an annual growth rate of 10.51% compared with 2009. The confidence intervals of the arrival forecasts are also presented in the report.(hide)

The Ninth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business successfully concluded

Sponsored by China University of Geosciences, the Ninth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business was successfully held on 29-30 May 2010 with the theme - “Presenting innovative research, solutions and approaches to making the Internet a productive and efficient alternative for global commerce”.

Professor Haiyan Song and Mr Bastian Gao from the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University presented the new developments of the Tourism Demand Forecasting System for Hong Kong at the conference. The participants of the conference were impressed with this innovative system. As a result, the conference organizer has agreed to include a new track on E-Tourism at the next year’s conference.(hide)