Tourism Seasonality: A Complementary Approach
Journal Title: Journal of Tourism and Services - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 7
Abstract
There are several variables used in the study of tourism demand. In this paper we propose to compare a traditional variable used for tourism analyses (nights spent in Italy by residents) with a variable on expenditure for domestic tourism of Italian households. These data sources, provided for Italy by the Italian National Statistical Office (ISTAT), are characterized by strong fluctuations due to seasonality that prevents to appreciate the long-term pattern. The two series are compared each other, in order to increase the knowledge of the phenomenon under consideration, after a process of decomposition of each series in order to extract the two components: seasonality and cycle-trend. The analysis, covering the period 1997-2009, exhibits interesting similarities and divergences between the two series. We also provided a more synthetic representation through an index (EXNI) that is computed as the ratio between the average seasonal coefficients of expenditures and of nights spent.
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Antonio Giusti, Laura Grassini, Alessandro Viviani
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