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The purpose of this paper is to adapt a fuzzy time series combined with genetic algorithm (GA) to forecast tourist arrivals in Taiwan. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 Different cases are studied to understand the effect of variation of fuzzy time series order, number of intervals and population size on the fitness function which decreases with increase in fuzzy time series order and number of fuzzy intervals, but do not have marginal effect due to change in population size. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 Results based on an example of forecasting Taiwan\u2019s tourism demand was used to verify the efficacy of proposed model and confirmed its superiority to existing models providing solutions for different orders of fuzzy time series, number of intervals and population size with a smaller forecasting error as measured by root mean square error. <\/jats:p>\n            <\/jats:sec>\n            <jats:sec>\n               <jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n               <jats:p> \u2013 This study provides a viable forecasting methodology, adapting a fuzzy time series combined with an evolutionary GA. 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