Fonte: Cuadernos de Turismo; No. 10 (2002): Julio - Diciembre; 137-154
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Resumo: This study try to analyse the main factors of the world tourism demand and its evolution, emphasizing in the relationship among tourists motivations and effective demand. In addition, the work examine, in a descriptive way, how some of these factors have affect the Spanish tourism demand of last decade. This study support the significance of tourism demand elasticity to wealth or international political matters. Furthermore, we have observed the development of this demand towards new market targets and higher levels of quality. In the end, the analyse about the seasonality of demand has highlighted the effects of Spanish high specialization demand in the specific sun and beach target and in the markets of Spain, United Kingdom and Germany.
