Seasonality in Gran Canaria

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I take this post to talk about the news you see on the news almost daily: the increase in visitors.
At this news I tried to visualize what happened in the XXI century.

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The figures for 2012 and take us to 2003 levels, essentially replacing get 300,000 British visitors Scandinavian market.

The next question would be to know how this change affects the “mix of source markets.”

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The German and British market in 2000 were 65% and now it is the German and Scandinavian. The British remained just over 20%. Benelux is kept constant and the rest just over 5%.

What has led to this change of the market?
This fact replace a British Scandinavian market has been a worsening seasonality. The graph can be seen as the slope of the line has increased.

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Without calculating the Gini index have that winter has grown from 54% in 2000 was almost 61% today.

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During the crisis we see that winter has not suffered as much as the summer. The differences between maximum and minimum in T2 and T3 are very significant.

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Finally, a graph shows the trends of the studied period.

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