البدائل الاستراتيجية للتقليل من آثار موسمية الأقاليم السياحية في إطار رؤية تنموية مستدامة

Abstract EN

this study intends to analysis of seasonality and analyze its impact on sustainable development and search for diversification tourism strategies as effective mechanism in order to reduce the seasonality among the requirements of achieving the sustainable development in the tourism Regions.

The overall results of the study confirmed the drawbacks of seasonality on the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in tourism regions.

This state of fact makes it necessary to inevitably deal with the issue which implies the development of a range of diversification tourism strategies, through: i) diversification of temporal and spatial attractiveness of tourism strategy; ii)Market diversification strategy; iii) product/market diversification strategy through providing a new or innovative product package to a new segments of the market in a accordance with spatial characteristics of tourist destination.

These strategies are conditioned to the will of the authorities to exploit tourism as an inexhaustible natural resource to revive the economy in a sustainable way.

Key words: Tourism seasonality, sustainable development, diversification tourism, tourism regions