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Selective Key Studies in Seasonality Tourism: A Literature Review

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Seasonality and its disciplines have been a central theme in tourism literature. This paper aims to examine the progress of research in Seasonality Tourism through the description of the main authors, papers and methodologies applied over the last 30 years, from 1987 until 2017. An in-depth review of published scholar papers was performed and a classification of the bibliography is presented in order to define and classify the research in Seasonality Tourism. The papers are sorted by (1) year of publication, (2) research methods applied and (3) geographical distribution of methodologies followed. The main interest of this study lies in the better understanding of the methodologies used over the last 30 years as a toolbox for future analysis of tourism seasonality.

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Gkarane, S., Vassiliadis, C. (2020). Selective Key Studies in Seasonality Tourism: A Literature Review. In: Kavoura, A., Kefallonitis, E., Theodoridis, P. (eds) Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36126-6_27

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