Are we overestimating the influence of local events on travel planning for everyone, as if everyone had infinite flexibility to choose their dates?
For most of my clients, especially those juggling tight budgets or school-aged children, the priority is to find dates to leave, not to align their stay with a festival.
Local events then become an additional constraint to manage, not a decisive criterion for the destination.
For example, a family with rigid work schedules and a single vacation budget seeks an available week, even if it means higher accommodation prices due to an event.
The threshold of relevance of these manifestations varies greatly depending on personal circumstances.