Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of 'Glocal' Place-Identity

Mobilities

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-92

  Torkington, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Algarve; glocalization; lifestyle migration; place branding; place identity; tourism

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; CULTURAL IDENTITY; GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LIFESTYLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOURISM;

ALGARVE; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84857166235     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.631812     Document Type: Article

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