Reasons for seasonal tourism

Revan Hakim Muhammad Hamoud
Asst. Lect. Janan Abdul Redha Hamza

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 represents these specifications located in the Mediterranean basin and in 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 represents extreme cold, rainfall, dense clouds that block the sun’s rays, and high humidity

2- By concentrating 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, Iser: 2013, 89-90) (Ghanem, Saad, 2003: 132)

Fourth: Characteristics of seasonal tourism

Seasonal tourism has the following characteristics (Khafra, Diab, 2005: p. 248)
– The large specific weight of incomplete use (operation)
– Seasonal fluctuations such as the size of operation, use and work pressure
– The low specific weight of qualified staff
– The large specific weight of female work

Fifth: Seasonal tourism patterns

Tourist destinations go through a periodic experience of tourism activity, so they go to the peak season and the recession season, and are separated by the shoulder seasons, thus forming patterns resulting from regular or irregular fluctuations that only return to specific times of the year. According to both Mao and Bothla, seasonality has four patterns as follows (Khanawi and Al-Aoubi, 2017-2018: p. 49)
1- Single-peak seasonality is the most extreme seasonal pattern that occurs in waves In which tourist demand in specific months of the year is greater than tourist demand for the rest of the months of the same year due to the seasonal growth of tourist demand in the regions of Egypt matching the seasonal pattern of the attractiveness of the tourist destination as is the case in Mediterranean destinations.
2- Double-peak seasonality results when there are two main and secondary seasons so that each season meets a type of need such as mountainous areas that attract tourists in the summer and winter seasons and the Caribbean countries are a good example of this.
3- Multiple-peak seasonality occurs in areas where tourist movement occurs at a single pace throughout the year as is the case in urban areas such as Singapore and Hong Kong.
4- Minimum seasonality is a mechanistic or multiple demand, i.e. it is not linked to a fixed period of time.