The forecasting tourist arrival is an essential discipline in planning, resource management, and other decision-making processes in micro and macro level. It facilitates to ensure the sustainable development by minimizing the risk to all aspects. There is a growth of arrivals from all the...

The Circular Model (CM) is univariate statistical technique, which is applied in modeling wave like patterns. Development of the CM was based on; Newton's Law of Circular Motion, Fourier Transformation and Multiple Regression Analysis. Most important property of the CM is that; the model is...

International tourism has become a popular global leisure event and emerged as a major source of foreign exchange earnings for the developing countries. This study seeks to investigate the determinants of demand for international tourism in Sri Lanka within the framework of bounds test approach...

This study focused on pattern recognition of tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka from various regions in the world. Monthly time series data from January 2008 to December 2014 are used in this study. The regions selected for the study were the top four in market position. They are; Asia, Western...