The study was conducted in Estonia at the whole country level
and at the county level, to compare the spatiotemporal characteristics
of destinations on different geographical scales (Fig. 1). The
two Estonian counties of Saare and Tartu are chosen because they
are widely known popular tourist areas and are also known to have
temporally and geographically different visitation patterns from
those of Estonia as a whole. Visits made to these counties are
compared to visits made to the whole of Estonia (excluding Tallinn
and Harju County). In 2013, a total of 1,297,122 nights were spent by
foreign tourists in Estonia not including Tallinn and Harju County,
and there were a total of 36,870 available bed places outside of
Harju County