issues and challenges in residential tourism

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

INTRODUCTION

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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

ISSUES

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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

CHALLENGES

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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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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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References

R.Huete@ua.es

University of AlicanteSpain

Thank you!

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