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- Title
MODELLING THE EMPLOYMENT IN CROATIAN HOTEL INDUSTRY USING THE BOX-JENKINS AND THE NEURAL NETWORK APPROACH.
- Authors
Baldigara, Tea
- Abstract
Purpose of the research - Hotel industry is a fast growing worldwide sector, playing an important role in many economies, always looking for improved methodologies capable to provide more accurate key determinants forecasts. It is a well-known fact that hotel industry is the most propulsive sectors and among the most significant generators of Croatian economic growth and development. The aim of this paper is to investigate and compare the performances and the forecasting accuracy of different models in the attempt to define the data generating process of the number of employees in Croatian accommodation establishments. Methodology and data - Starting with the assumption that hotel industry is a human driven sector, and that the human factor is one of the most significant factors of successful business performances, the paper seeks to explore the forecasting accuracy of the Box-Jenkins and the neural network methodology in modelling the monthly number of employees in Croatian accommodation establishments. Considering the pronounced seasonal component and the non-stationarity of the analysed time-series various structures of the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models (SARIMA) were experimented and different neural networks architecture were trained and tested. After the modelling phase, the forecasting accuracy and the model performances were analysed. Model performance and forecasting accuracy evaluation was tested using the mean absolute error, the mean absolute percent error and the square root mean square error. Results - The diagnostic testing show that in, modelling the seasonal timeseries of the number of employees in Croatian accommodation establishments, the neural network model outperformed the Box-Jenkins methodology; a methodology traditionally used in forecasting time-series with a pronounced seasonal component. Conclusions and implications - Given the importance of the hotel industry for Croatian economic development and international competitiveness enhancement, the research results could be useful, for both, researchers and practitioners, in the process of planning and routing the future Croatian hotel industry development and business performances improvement.
- Subjects
CROATIA; EMPLOYMENT; HOTELS &; economics; HOSPITALITY industry &; economics; ECONOMIC development; MATHEMATICAL models of economic development; ARTIFICIAL neural networks; BOX-Jenkins forecasting; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Sarajevo Business & Economics Review (Zbornik Radova), 2020, Issue 38, p79
- ISSN
1986-5473
- Publication type
Article