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Swiss tourism: monthly Swiss overnight stay data

Source: R/data.R
swiss_tourism.Rd

A dataset of 27 time series with monthly observations of the number of overnight stays in Switzerland, from Jan 2005 to Jan 2025.

Usage

swiss_tourism

Format

A list that contains:

  • ts: a multivariate time series of class ts;

  • n_bottom: integer with the number of bottom time series (26);

  • n_upper: integer with the number of upper time series (1);

  • agg_mat: the aggregation matrix for the hierarchy. (1x26)

Source

Federal Statistical Office of Switzerland (2025). Hotel sector: arrivals and overnight stays of open establishments by year, month, canton and visitors' country of residence. https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/en/px-x-1003020000_102

Details

This is a hierarchy of time series that contains:

  • 26 bottom-level series corresponding to the 26 Swiss cantons

  • 1 top-level series corresponding to the Swiss total. Each time series has 241 observations.

References

Carrara, C., Azzimonti, D., Corani, G., Zambon, L. (2025). Modeling the uncertainty on the covariance matrix for probabilistic forecast reconciliation. arXiv:2506.19554 doi:10.48550/arXiv.2506.19554 .