issues and challenges in residential tourism
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Issues and Challenges in Residential Tourism
Areas
Raquel HueteUniversity of Alicante
Spain
1° FORUM INTERNAZIONALE sul “TURISMO RESIDENZIALE”14-15 dicembre 2012 – Università della Calabria
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Lifestyle migrants or residential tourists
CASE STUDYThe coastal area of the Alicante province (southeast Spain) is known as Costa Blanca.
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THE COSTA BLANCA15% of the registered population comes from within the EU (A quarter from UK followed by Germans)
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Total population
EU population
In 19 municipalities, EU foreigners are more than Spaniards.
In 3 towns foreigners account for nearly 80% of the population.
© ASTI. 2010
THE COSTA BLANCA
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According to official data:
Tourism data
95,000 beds in tourist apartments
71,000 beds in hotels
27,000 beds in campings
Housing data:
1,3M houses
527,000 registered as second homes
ISSUES
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Residential tourism and lifestyle migration has contrasting consequences:
An important economic activity (real estate, trade/consumption, facilities, etc.) that stimulates the offer of personal, health and elder care services;
Contribution to the vitality of relatively neglected areas.
But also, social and environmental problems
2008 2009
Algorfa 2% 67%
Daya Vieja 6% 67%
% EU25 citizens / total population
Source: INE, Padrón, 2009
Very fast and unplanned change
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Residential tourists tend to live in housing estates where most of the residents come from the same country so their language and national identity are maintained.
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Social problems
Fiscal issues
Health services
Political representation and participation rights
Integration policies
Environmental problems
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Servicies
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Leisure offer:
nature-based activities
rural tourism
wine tourism, etc.
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• Preservation of the environmental and cultural resources
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CHALLENGES
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VFR Tourism
European way of citizenship practices
Intercultural relationships
Work in progress:European tourists and residents dualization: implications for local policies
• Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. (2012), "Residential tourism or lifestyle migration. Social problems linked to the non-definition of the situation". In O. Moufakkir and P. Burns (eds.) Controversies in Tourism. Wallingford: CABI, pp. 160-173.
• Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. (2011), "Más allá del turismo: movilidad residencial europea y nuevos núcleos urbanos". [Beyond tourism: European residential mobility and new population centres] Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 56: 111-128.
• Mantecón, A. & Huete, R. (2011), "Sociological insights on residential tourism: host society attitudes in a mature destination"". European Journal of Tourism Research, 4 (2):109-122.
• Mazón, T., Huete, R. & Mantecón, A. (2010), "Il turismo residenziale in Spagna nella prospettiva sociologica". In T. Romita (ed.) Il turismo residenziale. Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 67-93.
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