Table 11 Results of ablation studies on the Jiuzhaigou Valley and Siguniang mountain datasets.

From: Time series transformer for tourism demand forecasting

Model

Metric

Dataset

Forecast horizon

Jiuzhaigou Valley

Siguniang Mountain

1

7

15

30

1

7

15

30

Tsformer w/calendar

MAE

1547.59

2682.61

2867.71

3481.77

470.54

852.48

948.58

1291.55

RMSE

2599.83

4282.2

4276.85

4990.61

779.67

1687.76

1714.13

2276.43

MAPE (%)

13.77

23.37

30.69

33.75

25.51

41.13

41.22

64.88

Tsformer w/o calendar

MAE

1604.37

2744.57

2927.15

3490.61

469.32

887.95

1011.57

1324.83

RMSE

2607.03

4252.23

4359.9

4997.47

793.07

1800.1

1866.86

2312.94

MAPE (%)

14.8

25.53

30.65

33.75

25.66

44.98

47.99

67.8