This page accompanies the manuscript When Online Discussion Helps Forecast Hong Kong Tourism. The study uses monthly Hong Kong tourism outcomes and online discussion measures from February 2018 through April 2023. Its forecast evaluation covers January 2020 through April 2023.
Public source snapshots
An archive of three government data snapshots contains visitor-arrival, hotel-occupancy, and hotel-room-rate source files retrieved on 21 September 2026. The archive includes source URLs, file hashes, and attribution. These public files are related to the study; they are not the complete analysis panel or the exact archived values used for every model fit. Government series may change as their custodians revise or update them.
For current versions and provider documentation, use the original sources:
- Visitor arrivals by mode of transport and country or region of residence, Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department, Table 650-80002.
- Monthly hotel room occupancy rate, Hong Kong Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
- Average achieved hotel room rate, Hong Kong Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau.
Restricted study inputs
Wisers supplied the archived Tourism Board arrivals, monthly topic counts, and holiday, school-break, and exchange-rate fields through the Wisers–HKUST Hong Kong Tourism Index project. They are not in the public archive. Public release of these provider-supplied inputs requires Wisers’ permission.
Requests for the restricted inputs may be sent to the corresponding author and are subject to Wisers’ permission. Analysis code, protocol files, and saved forecasts may also be requested from the corresponding author.
The public archive and source links above cannot reproduce the full analysis without the restricted inputs.