Tourist season and residents' life satisfaction: Empirical evidence from a longitudinal design in a Mediterranean destination.

The aim of this paper is to confirm or confute the hypothesis that residents' attitudesto tourism and individuals' overall satisfaction vary with tourist development and todetermine whether changes are long lasting or vanish with the tourist season. Alongitudinal design based on a three‐step survey (before, peak, and after touristseasons) was conducted for a destination where tourism is a major economic activity.The results demonstrate that residents' attitudes to tourism change over time andresidents' happiness and satisfaction with life domains are endangered by tourism.They also show a certain recovery capacity after the“perturbation.”