Tourism Tidbits: Applying Statistics to Tourism

Dr. Peter Tarlow | September 1, 2016

Y= wifi = w1f1 + w2f2 + w3f3 + w4f4 by Dr. Peter Tarlow There are few people who can say that they enjoyed their college statistics course. Most of us tended to see statistics courses as an exercise in making simple hard and the obvious obtuse. Yet despite the many difficulties modern statistics can play an important role in the tourism industry. For example, anyone interested in promoting his or her locale's tourist industry needs to have at the very least a good demographic profile of the visitors to his city. Tourism professionals seem to love to quote statistics be these statistics correct or not. Although often these stats are quot...