APLIKASI METODE REGRESI LINIER SEDERHANA UNTUK MEMPREDIKSI KEDATANGAN JUMLAH WISATAWAN MANCANEGARA PASCA PANDEMI COVID 19

The visits of foreign tourists are quite a concern because they can be used as a source of regional and state economic income. The decline in tourist arrivals in recent years caused by the impact of this pandemic has sufficiently affected the economic cycle in areas that are usually tourist destinations. The purpose of this research is to find out the number of foreign tourist visits in the future so that the authorities can make further decisions. The method used in this research is simple linear regression. The data used in this study is the number of foreign tourists in 2015-2021 coming from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). From the results of the study it was found that the results of predicting the number of foreign tourists using the simple linear regression method showed increasing results from year to year, namely starting in 2022 there were 29,584,805.