Cover -- Guest editorial -- Tourism demand nowcasting using a LASSO-MIDAS model -- Forecasting daily attraction demand … application to tourism destinations' crowdedness -- A segmented machine learning modeling approach of social media for predicting … occupancy -- Which search queries are more powerful in tourism demand forecasting: searches via mobile device or PC? -- Timing …

Part I: Theoretical Fundaments -- AI and Big Data in Tourism -- Epistemological Challenges -- Data Science and … Interdisciplinarity -- Data Science and Ethical Issues -- Web Scraping -- Part II: Machine Learning -- Machine Learning in Tourism: A …Access to large data sets has led to a paradigm shift in the tourism research landscape. Big data is enabling a new …