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Seasonality of tourism

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  • Juan Antonio Duro

    (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

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Seasonality is a central problem for the sustainability of tourism in mass destinations. Among the main challenges for academic research are aspects related to its measurement and decomposition. This article proposes a novel way to decompose seasonality by multiplicative factors. Specifically, as an illustrative example, we decompose the seasonal concentration of tourism revenues into three components: revenue per tourist per day, average length of stay and tourist numbers. In addition, the methodology has been applied to Spain as a whole, where the results obtained indicate the predominant and increasing weight of tourist numbers in the recently heightened seasonality. These results suggest some concerns about the seasonality pattern and its impacts.

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  • Juan Antonio Duro, 2018. "Seasonality of tourism," Tourism Economics, , vol. 24(5), pages 615-621, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:24:y:2018:i:5:p:615-621
    DOI: 10.1177/1354816618768319
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