Types of Seasonality: And Its Impact on Pricing Policy

Supervised by: Asst. Lect. Janan Abdul Redha Hamza
Revan Hakim Muhammad Hamoud

Seasonality has an influential role in the tourism sector and this role is reflected in economic and social developments, especially labor capacities during recessions and in remote and coastal areas, where the occupancy rate increases when tourists arrive during peak and middle periods, where there is a special policy for hotel establishment prices

1- Peak season: – As tourism demand increases more in the summer season, especially in the months (July, August, September), where demand is greater than supply

2- Depression season: – It is a reduction in demand for the tourism product, i.e. tourism activity stops in some seasons of the year (Basili, 2002: 27-26)

Reasons for seasonality: –

1- The presence of some climatic and geographical factors, and the climate preferred by tourists is usually characterized by being (moderate temperature, sunny, pure, dry), and usually these specifications are located in the Mediterranean basin The Mediterranean and most other tourist sites, and these features are an important factor in the summer season, while the climatic specifications in other seasons stand as an obstacle to tourism activity, which represent extreme cold, rainfall, dense clouds that block the sun’s rays, and high humidity.

2- By focusing school rents and industrial institution vacations at certain times of the year, as they represent the largest part of global tourism, as well as paid vacations and free time.

3- The length of daylight hours, as daylight hours in European countries overlooking the Mediterranean reach about (16) hours in the summer, and this encourages the practice of tourism activities with the presence of light (Al-Hawri, Al-Dabbagh,) Darwish, Isser: 2013, 89-90) and (Ghanem, Saad, 2003: 132)