German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration
The current generation of senior citizens strives for a self-determined way of life and frequently materialises this through relocation to tourist destinations. Based on this premise, this paper analyses German (pre)retirees who are planning or have realised inter-regional lifestyle migration to Bad...
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| author | Tobias Weidinger Stefan Kordel |
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| description | The current generation of senior citizens strives for a self-determined way of life and frequently materialises this through relocation to tourist destinations. Based on this premise, this paper analyses German (pre)retirees who are planning or have realised inter-regional lifestyle migration to Bad Fuessing, a spa town in Southern Germany. While recent studies have focused on lifestyle migrants’ perspectives in pre- and post-migration lives, this article adds local stakeholders’ assessments of age-selective in-migration. It is proposed that locals view the latter ambivalently against the backdrop of demographic change and transformations in health tourism. The article opens up lifestyle migration research to applied questions by considering the economic and social implications for destinations, i.e. it takes into account the structures that frame migration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3cd4f718c4824bcd81232b691accbd132022-12-22T04:24:24ZengZRC SAZU, Založba ZRCDve Domovini0353-67771581-12122015-01-014216501German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-MigrationTobias WeidingerStefan KordelThe current generation of senior citizens strives for a self-determined way of life and frequently materialises this through relocation to tourist destinations. Based on this premise, this paper analyses German (pre)retirees who are planning or have realised inter-regional lifestyle migration to Bad Fuessing, a spa town in Southern Germany. While recent studies have focused on lifestyle migrants’ perspectives in pre- and post-migration lives, this article adds local stakeholders’ assessments of age-selective in-migration. It is proposed that locals view the latter ambivalently against the backdrop of demographic change and transformations in health tourism. The article opens up lifestyle migration research to applied questions by considering the economic and social implications for destinations, i.e. it takes into account the structures that frame migration.https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10775tourismlifestyle migrationageingregional developmentgermany |
| spellingShingle | Tobias Weidinger Stefan Kordel German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration Dve Domovini tourism lifestyle migration ageing regional development germany |
| title | German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration |
| title_full | German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration |
| title_fullStr | German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration |
| title_full_unstemmed | German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration |
| title_short | German Spa Towns as Retirement Destinations: How (pre)Retirees Negotiate Relocation and Locals Asses In-Migration |
| title_sort | german spa towns as retirement destinations how pre retirees negotiate relocation and locals asses in migration |
| topic | tourism lifestyle migration ageing regional development germany |
| url | https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10775 |
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