¿Un lugar en el sol para quién? El turismo residencial y sus consecuencias para el desarrollo equitativo y sostenible en Guanacaste, Costa Rica This is a article based on research by Femke van Noorloos. It looks at the impacts of residential tourism in Guanacaste, Costa Rica and its relationship with development. The full article, in Spanish, … Continue reading A place in the sun for who? Residential tourism and its consequences for equitable and sustainable development in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

By Raquel Huete, Alejandro Mantecón & Jesús Estévez This article raises interesting questions about the role of economics in lifestyle migration, particularly in a time of economic crisis. It is available here and the abstract appears below. The lifestyle migration conceptual framework is based on the motivation for moving reported by the migrants themselves. We discuss the operability of this … Continue reading Challenges in Lifestyle Migration Research: Reflections and Findings about the Spanish Crisis

By Femke van Noorloos This article looks at the interactions of lifestyle migrants local communities, with a focus on Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The great news is that it is open access - so anyone can read it. It is available here. The abstract appears below: Current patterns of “move-in move-out” hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by … Continue reading Residential Tourism and Multiple Mobilities: Local Citizenship and Community Fragmentation in Costa Rica

By Ulrika Åkerlund, Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University Housing Studies (forthcoming) DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.773584 This paper focus on international acquisition of recreational property, and focuses on the demand side as it examines the buyers’ behavior during the acquisition process. Property acquisition is understood as an integral part of the search for the ‘good life’, … Continue reading Buying a Place Abroad – Processes of Recreational Property Acquisition

By Ulrika Åkerlund (Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University) Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research 23(2): 251-267 DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2012.687691 The phenomenon of temporary migration motivated by leisure values, has been observed in many places in the world during the last couple of decades, and may be positioned as a form … Continue reading Selling a Place in the Sun – International Property Mediation as Production of Lifestyle Mobility

By Michaela Benson My latest article based on my fieldwork among the British residents of rural France has just been published in a special issue of Anthropological Quarterly on authenticities. This develops further my argument about the relationship between lifestyle migration and middle-class engagements in processes of social distinction. Abstract: For the British residents of rural France, … Continue reading Living the “Real” Dream in la France profonde? Lifestyle Migration, Social Distinction, and the Authenticities of Everyday Life

By Noel Salazar Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: The Case of Chinese Elites Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Yang Zhang (Macao University of Science and Technology, China) Annals of Tourism Research Volume 43, October 2013, Pages 81–99 This article analyzes Chinese seasonal tourists, whose cultural practices originate from and provide new meaning to traditional … Continue reading Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: the case of Chinese elites

By Marco Eimmermann My paper, Promoting Swedish Countryside in the Netherlands is published in European Urban and Regional Studies (DOI: 10.1177/0969776413481370). Its aim is to examine international rural place marketing efforts by Swedish municipalities in Dalarna and Bergslagen, toward affluent West-European migrants, exemplified by campaigns in the Netherlands. Four research questions are addressed in this study; … Continue reading Promoting Swedish countryside in the Netherlands: international rural place marketing to attract new residents