Amenity migration: the migratory phenomenon in mountain tourism destinations

Authors

  • Lía Domínguez de Nakayama Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCOMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Susana Graciela Marioni Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCOMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v1i2.88

Keywords:

Amenity migration. Tourist destinations. Perception. Sustainable development. Social institutions.

Abstract

Since long time ago population dynamics in Argentina has been linked to migration. Nevertheless, scientists have concluded that no research has found migration to be due to positive attractors. Almost every research presents migration as the unavoidable outcome of constraining environmental conditions. Recently a new type of migration has come to be, linked with tourism, which has received the denomination of amenity migration, and has as its subjects people who, after being tourist in a certain destination, decide to come back to it as dwellers. They can stay either for the season or the whole year. This movement produces important effects in the collective profile of tourism destinations. This article intends to study demographic and social processes quickened in mountain tourism destinations by this peculiar kind of migration, with a case study in two Argentinean cities San Martín de los Andes (Neuquén) y Villa General Belgrano (Córdoba). Documental research and in-depth interviews with migrants as well as natives enables an preliminary understanding of the way this kind of migration affects socio cultural configuration in destination places as well as relationship amongst residents and newcomers and sustainability policies for local development.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Lía Domínguez de Nakayama, Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCOMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Profesora da Facultad de Turismo – Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Abogada- Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Especialización en Gestión Sostenible del Turismo - Universidad de la Cooperación Internacional de Costa Rica y Fundación Unida Buenos Aires, Maestría en Ciencias Sociales con mención en Política Social - Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

Susana Graciela Marioni, Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNCOMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Profesora Adjunta do Centro de Planificación para el Desarrollo Sustentable del Turismo (CEPLADES), Licenciada en Turismo - Universidad Nacional del Comahue (1984). Maestrando en Gestión Ambiental del Desarrollo Urbano - Facultad de Ingeniería - Universidad Nacional del Comahue. CV LAC: http://www.sicytar.secyt.gov.ar/busqueda/prc_imp_cv_int?f_cod=0000824410

Downloads

Published

2007-12-01

How to Cite

Nakayama, L. D. de, & Marioni, S. G. (2007). Amenity migration: the migratory phenomenon in mountain tourism destinations. Revista Brasileira De Pesquisa Em Turismo, 1(2), 101–136. https://doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v1i2.88

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2007)

Section

Articles

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).