Zimbabwe is blessed with tourist attractions that draw visitors from all over the world. However, there are no quantitative models available for tourism stakeholders to utilize in decision-making and planning. The country is experiencing foreign currency shortages, which may be alleviated if the...

The paper presents five motivations for implementing visitor counts and forecasts in tourism destinations, with visitor management being the prevalent one. The authors conceptualize different forecasting methods based on available data sources and give concrete recommendations for destination...