Accurately forecasting U.K. inbound expenditure by purpose of visit plays an important role in tourism planning and policy making. Forecasting U.K. inbound expenditure at the disaggregated level is studied in this article. Disaggregating is done on the basis of purpose of visit: holiday,...

This paper assesses the link between dimensions of agile supply chain, competitive objectives and business performance in the UK North Sea upstream oil and gas industry. A questionnaire was designed and administered covering important criteria of agility identified from the literature. The...

It is widely accepted in forecasting that a combination model can improve forecasting accuracy. One important challenge is how to select the optimal subset of individual models from all available models without having to try all possible combinations of these models. This paper proposes an...

This insightful book explores the most important established and emerging qualitative and quantitative research methods in tourism. The authors provide a detailed overview of the nature of the research method, its use in tourism, the advantages and limitations, and future directions for research.