ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how specific management practices can reduce the negative effects of tourism seasonality, which affect a number of destinations around the world. The phenomenon of seasonality creates high seasons accompanied with the arrival of masses of people in a determined time and space, and low seasons characterised by a limited number or lack of tourists. Both of these opposing situations – the excessive presence of tourists and a tendency towards an absence of tourist flows – can be highly significant for host countries, as regards environmental, economical and social consequences.
