01959cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF016160 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513526348 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Cevik, Serhan. Where Should We Go? : Internet Searches and Tourist Arrivals / Serhan Cevik. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (16 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The widespread availability of internet search data is a new source of high-frequency information that can potentially improve the precision of macroeconomic forecasting, especially in areas with data constraints. This paper investigates whether travel-related online search queries enhance accuracy in the forecasting of tourist arrivals to The Bahamas from the U.S. The results indicate that the forecast model incorporating internet search data provides additional information about tourist flows over a univariate approach using the traditional autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model and multivariate models with macroeconomic indicators. The Google Trends-augmented model improves predictability of tourist arrivals by about 30 percent compared to the benchmark ARIMA model and more than 20 percent compared to the model extended only with income and relative prices. Mode of access: Internet Bahamas, The imf IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/022 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/022/001.2020.issue-022-en.xml IMF e-Library