Estimation of tourist arrival to Malaysia by using least square method and euler method / Izzani Mohd Fuza ... [et al.]

The monthly number of tourist arrival in Malaysia within a year is inconsistent. The trend of data was contradicted according to the previous data. The Tourism Malaysia Industry are facing problem to estimate tourist arrival. This will be affected to the industry and stakeholder especially to their income and economic development. Malaysia nowadays needs to focus on tourist arrival from other country. Therefore, the country needs to measure and analyzed the number of tourist arrival in order to make sure the growing of economy industry. Accordingly, a solution is needed to overcome this problem. Tourism can be developed if the demanding of tourist increases and consistently. Moreover, it will help to improve the financial of the country. The objective of this research is to estimate the number of tourist arrival by using Least Square method and Euler method. In order to achieve the accuracy of the purposed method, result from the actual data will be compared to the numerical solution. Therefore, researcher can choose the most applicable method to predict tourist arrival for the next upcoming years.