Residential tourism and multiple mobilities: Local citizenship and community fragmentation in Costa Rica

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 570-589

  Van Noorloos, Femke ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Community involvement; Fragmentation; Globalization; Lifestyle mobilities; Migration; Participation; Residential tourism; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; GLOBALIZATION; LIFESTYLE; LOCAL ECONOMY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 84880361141     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5020570     Document Type: Article

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