COMPETITION DESCRIPTION: TOURISM FORECASTING PART ONE

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Part one requires competitors to predict 518 tourism-related time series. The winner of this competition will be invited to contribute a discussion paper to the International Journal of Forecasting.

The prize pool for this competition is AUD500.00.

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7 teams have submitted to this competition.

Submissions must be made by
11:00am Monday 20 September 2010

详细介绍
Tourism is one of the most rapidly growing global industries and tourism forecasting is becoming an increasingly important activity in planning and managing the industry. The time series in this competition have already been studied in detail in a
paper by Athanasopoulos, Hyndman, Song and Wu (2010)
(to be published in the International Journal of Forecasting). For part one of this contest, entrants must submit forecasts of the next four yearly observations. Forecasts will be tested against the actual future observations for each series.

Results for part one will be evaluated on the basis of the average MASE across all series.

Note, this is just part one of the competition. Part two will require entrants to forecast monthly and quarterly time series. The overall result will be calculated as the average MASE across all time series and across all frequencies.


The overall winner will collect $AUD500 and will be invited to contribute a discussion paper to the International Journal of Forecasting describing their methodology and giving their results, provided either the monthly results are better than 1.38, the quarterly results are better than 1.43 or the yearly results are better than 2.28. These thresholds are the best performing methods in the analysis of these data described in Athanasopoulos et al (2010).  In other words, the winner has to beat the best results in this paper for at least one of the three sets of series. It will also be necessary that the winner be able to describe their method clearly, in sufficient detail to enable replication and in a form suitable for the International Journal of Forecasting. The paper would appear in the April 2011 issue of the IJF.

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