The concept of seasonal tourism

Revan Hakim Muhammad Hamoud
Asst. Lect. Janan Abdul-Ridha Hamza

Like other economic sectors, tourism is characterized by temporal fluctuations in the volume of its activity, as it increases to reach its peak at times of the year, while it is in a state of relative thunder and cessation at other times of the same year, which leads to the emergence of what is known as seasonality, which is considered one of the most important problems of the tourism industry and the most influential on tourism demand (Al-Sukkar, 1994: 66)
1- Baron presented or defined seasonality of tourism as those effects that occur annually at the same time with less or more volume (Alam, 2008: 180-181)
2- Seasonal tourism is also known as: a group of variables that occur to the supply and demand for tourism services due to the influence of certain factors that are repeated annually (Al-Sukkar, 2008: 42)
3- Seasonality is the stable nature of the dynamics during a time of the year for this phenomenon or that which appears in the rise and fall during a time of Times of the year at the level of this indicator or that during several years (Khadhra, Diab, 2006: 246)

4- The tourist season is the period that witnesses the influx of waves of tourists and the flourishing of tourist activities and services that are based on them, which vary between countries and regions of the world in terms of place and time and according to the nature of the tourist offer and its characteristics. This offer may be throughout the year, such as cultural and therapeutic tourism and some types of religious tourism, or it may be during a specific period of the year, such as the availability of certain climatic characteristics or according to events or occasions (Al-Zouka, Khamis: 1992: 93)

5- Seasonality is the effect of the tourist movement in general on the seasons of the year, which leads to fluctuations in demand between high and low due to the severity and movement of tourists at certain times of the year. (Samara, 2001: 42)
6- In other words, there are times of the year when tourist demand reaches its peak, while it is in a state of relative stagnation at other times, whether this demand is measured by the number of tourists or their spending on the level of hotel occupancy (Samara, 2001: 42).