Aiko Cohen

What everyone repeats, no one has verified: the idea that tourist guides are only a minor component of travel inspiration is a lazy simplification.
The dogma of fiction as the sole source of inspiration ignores the practical reality where a guide can be the first spark.
How many of my students have been fascinated by a hiking guide on the Swiss Alps, discovering routes that no film could have shown them?
The order of things is not fixed: sometimes, inspiration arises from reading a guide, revealing a place long before a work of fiction confirms it.

Isn't it an oversimplification to reduce the influence to the rainy season when booking tickets?
We must categorize factors properly, because the influence of weather is conditional, not directly causal.
There is the category of unavoidable constraints (professional appointments, school holidays) where weather is secondary.
Then, there is the category of cost optimization, where price dominates, regardless of sunshine.
A business traveler going to Singapore will care more about their meetings and ticket cost than humidity.