Resumen de Determinants of Territorial Seasonality: a Case Study for Spanish Tourist Municipalities

Judith Turrión Prats, Juan Antonio Duro Moreno

• Seasonality in tourism consists of the disequilibrium in tourist numbers over the course of the year and has become one of the main problems for the sustainability and growth of the sector. Given the need for quantitative literature on the subject, the primary focus of the present study is an exploration of the explanatory factors of seasonality across a wide range of Spain's tourist destinations for the period 2006–2012. The econometrical analysis is based on a fixed-effects panel data model. Several implications may be derived in terms of tourist policy.