Seasonality of tourism

Juan Duro

Tourism Economics, 2018, vol. 24, issue 5, 615-621

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: concentration; decomposition; seasonality; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/1354816618768319

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