Long-Term Positive Adjustments to Seasonality: Consequences of Summer Tourism in the Jotunheimen Area, Norway

Flognfeldt, Thor

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“…Seasonality studies have focused their attention on the effects of these different types of seasonal patterns on destinations and tourism-related businesses (Butler, 2001;Kennedy and Deegan, 2001;Sorensen, 2001). Both the public and private sectors have devoted many efforts to overcome the problems due to seasonality by trying to stimulate demand during shoulder and off-season periods (Baum and Lundtorp, 2001;Commons and Page, 2001;Flognfeldt, 2001;Klemm and Rawel, 2001;Koenig and Bischoff, 2003;Jang, 2004;Fernández-Morales and MayorgaToledano, 2008).…”

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“…These studies focus either on the demand side (Kennedy and Deegan, 2001;Lim and McAleer, 2001;Lundtorp et al, 2001;Koenig and Bischoff, 2003;Rosselló Nadal et al, 2004) or on the supply side (Krakover, 2000;Flognfeldt, 2001;Jeffrey and Barden, 2001;Capó Parrilla et al, 2007). Usually, it is assumed that there are eight main reasons for seasonality : natural (associated with climate and seasons of the year); institutional (linked to cultural and religious factors); social pressure and fashion; a sporting season; inertia and tradition; business customs; calendar effects (number of weekends, official holidays); and supply constraints.…”

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Hotel Characteristics and Seasonality in Prices: An Analysis Using Spanish Tour Operators' Brochures

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Seasonality in the tourism sector has been a major concern for policy makers, managers and other stakeholders. Many studies have analysed seasonality from the point of view of the number of visitors. However, there appear to be no studies focusing on seasonality in prices and on how to smooth out seasonal patterns. This paper analyses how hotel characteristics affect seasonality in prices using brochure data on 1,776 hotels in 32 sun-and-beach destinations in 11 countries. The authors find that, after controlling for destinationspecific variables that may cause variations in prices through demand shifts (such as climatic conditions, exchange rates or marketing expenditures), more hotel services and higher star ratings are associated with fewer seasonal variations in hotel prices.

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Hotel Characteristics and Seasonality in Prices: An Analysis Using Spanish Tour Operators' Brochures

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“…During the peak season, extra staff must often be hired to provide certain public services, which requires increasing local taxes, since national governments allocate resources in relation to the resident population [54]. During the high season this means that tourists will not be provided adequate services, whereas in the low season many local companies may close [5], which affects the reputation and image of the destination [61]. Seasonal employment affects both the local community and the employers and is one of the most widely studied topics in tourism seasonality [61,62].…”

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“…During the high season this means that tourists will not be provided adequate services, whereas in the low season many local companies may close [5], which affects the reputation and image of the destination [61]. Seasonal employment affects both the local community and the employers and is one of the most widely studied topics in tourism seasonality [61,62]. One of the effects of the tourism seasonality is the difficulty to recruit suitable staff [54] and to maintain an adequate quality standard [62], since the impermanence affects the training of the staff.…”

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Assessment of the Tourism’s Potential as a Sustainable Development Instrument in Terms of Annual Stability: Application to Spanish Rural Destinations in Process of Consolidation

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Tourism has established itself as an instrument that supports the sustainable development of rural destinations and has both, negative and positive effects. The annual instability of the flow of visitors, known as tourist seasonality, contributes to the intensification of some of these negative effects. In this work, we perform an analysis on the evolution of the seasonality intensity during the process of consolidation of the Spanish rural destinations, designed to improve the knowledge about the tourist activity's capacity to generate a sustainable development alternative steady throughout the year. To guarantee an accurate measurement, we propose the use of a synthetic indicator as a methodological innovation, such as the Method of Distance Pena DP2, that brings together the supply and demand variables. We can observe that tourist seasonality is restrained in smaller destinations that experience a growth in terms of tourists' arrivals, so it is associated with the early stages of the consolidation process. However, the destinations with a lower seasonality level do not match with those that welcome a larger number of visitors. Those destinations with the potential to obtain more benefits because of their level of consolidation do not have the necessary annual stability to provide employment and income in a steady way throughout the year.

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Seasonality research: the state of the art

Koenig‐Lewis

Bischoff

2005

Journal of Tourism Research

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The paper reviews progress in the area of tourism seasonality research and is intended as a guide to the literature. The emphasis is on recent advances in this field. Amongst the various aspects considered are the definitions of seasonality, its causes and impacts, policy-related issues, studies into consumer behaviour and approaches to measuring seasonality. The paper concludes that considerable gaps still exist in published research in this area and it argues that the field lacks a sound theoretical framework. It also suggests that adopting a more exacting quantitative perspective might facilitate and accelerate progress.

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Long-Term Positive Adjustments to Seasonality: Consequences of Summer Tourism in the Jotunheimen Area, Norway

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

Hotel Characteristics and Seasonality in Prices: An Analysis Using Spanish Tour Operators' Brochures

Hotel Characteristics and Seasonality in Prices: An Analysis Using Spanish Tour Operators' Brochures

Assessment of the Tourism’s Potential as a Sustainable Development Instrument in Terms of Annual Stability: Application to Spanish Rural Destinations in Process of Consolidation

Seasonality research: the state of the art

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