“…Our focal variable is hotel traveler resilience, quantified by the ratio of hotel travelers in each province relative to the 2019 value, serving as a proxy for the portion of pre-pandemic demand retained by the province. 1 Based on existent literature we consider a set of determinants related to market size (Batista e Silva et al, 2018; Rogerson and Rogerson, 2020; Watson and Deller, 2022), distance to the source (Calgaro et al, 2014; Gössling et al, 2021; Gallego and Font, 2019), income profile (Ridderstaat, 2021; Shin et al, 2002; Boto García and Baños-Pino, 2023), seasonality (Koo et al, 2016; Batista e Silva et al, 2018), and pandemic incidence (Duro et al, 2021, 2022).…”