The monthly pattern of suicides has remained a puzzle ever since it was discovered in the second half of the 19th century. In this paper we intend to “explain” not the pattern itself but rather its changes across countries and in the course of time.

The growing demand for city tourism and tourism-extensive rural regions clearly demonstrates that leisure markets are rearranging their priorities towards better quality and more individualised travel experience or – more generally – towards "postmodern" consumption and production...