Tourist Visits Prediction with Fully Recurrent Neural Network

Tourism is a key factor in export income, job creation and local development. The tourism sector is the third largest GDB contributor after oil and mining in Indonesia. Natural beauty and cultural wealth make Indonesia one of the destinations of foreign tourists. The growth tourist visit to Indonesia increases quite significantly (2017BPS data). Bali province is one the biggest contributors of tourist visit to Indonesia. Bali, which is a parameter of tourism in Indonesia, received around 4.001.835 tourists in 2015, or a quarter of tourist visits to Indonesia. Tourism has sustainable expansion and diversification, being one the largest economic sectors with the fastest growth in Indonesia, particularly Bali Province, and increases every year. The number of tourists visiting Bali fluctuates all the time, as it’s influenced by several factors which may affect tourist arrival every year. Visiting tourists spread to various areas and tourists’ objects in Bali. One of the popular tourist destinations is Tanah Lot, which annual average visit of up to one million.