Studying the effect of Seasonality Tourism on the Employee's Job Security of Tourism sector (Case Study: Sarein City)

The economists mentioned to the importance of tourism industry as the largest third world's industry. Each country, in different level of development, wants the positive effect of tourism industry on its economic development, communication improvement, promoting the international relationships and peace, improving the life standards, protection of cultural heritage, etc. Tourism has been provided more than 8/7 percentage of the global employment so that it is devoted a job out of 11.5 jobs in the world. However, one of the criticisms of tourism job-making is its seasonality that has bad effects on the job security of the tourism activists. The aim of this descriptive-analytical research is considering the effect of seasonality on two important dimensions of job security in terms of income and identity, and job stability. This research investigates the income average of contractive staff in the different seasons of the year and the opinion of the 105 tourism employees (in the hotel, restaurant and souvenir store sectors of Sarein city) about the seasonality impact on their income and job stability (by using T-test). Results show the income average and distribution of contract staffs in Sarein city that their variations are noticeable seasonally. These indexes reach to their highest amount in summer and decreasing in the spring, autumn and winter. Furthermore, activists of this sector confirm the seasonality impacts on their income extend and sense of job stability. Diversification of the tourism target market; holding up the festivals and events; and incentives such as diverse pricing in the low seasons can moderate unpleasant seasonality impacts.