Adjusted Gini Coefficient and ‘Months Equivalent’ Degree of Tourism Seasonality: A Research Note

Anastassios Tsitouras
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Anastassios Tsitouras: Department of Home Economics and Ecology, Harokopio University, 70 El Venizelou str, 176 71 Athens, Greece

Tourism Economics, 2004, vol. 10, issue 1, 95-100

Abstract: The Gini coefficient is shown to be a suitable summary measure for tourism seasonality. It is a well-behaved index, takes values in a linear fashion and, when adjusted to a reference uniform distribution, it produces a ‘months equivalent’ degree of seasonality.

Keywords: Gini; tourism; seasonality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.5367/000000004773166619

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