“…For many years, the trend for skiing in winter and beach stays in summer has had a direct repercussion on seasonality and disproportion between winter and summer tourist flows in Alpine areas (Bausch, Unseld, 2017;Béchet, Margretier, 2013). Despite the seasonal imbalance of tourist arrivals, winter tourism generates greater economic income and better supports development of several mountain resorts by financing of the infrastructure and job creation (Hallmann, Mueller, Peters, 2015;Zehrer, Smeral, Hallmann, 2016). However, the negative impact of seasonality affects all aspects of supply-side behaviour: finance, labour market and stakeholder operations (Boffa, Succurro, 2012;O'Mahony, Galloway, Bergin-Seers, Lee, McMurray, 2008).…”