3rd Call for Abstracts: Proposed Paper Session for the AAG Los Angeles (9-13 April 2013)
*Lifestyle Migrants & Destination Communities* Modern lifestyle migration is a form mobility emerging in the context of rapid globalization. It comes in many forms, including retirement migration, second-home tourism, international students, and amenity-seeking migrants and seasonality migrants. These new types of migrants differ from the traditional tourists and economic migrants in their relationships with home and away, their motivations to move, and their economic impacts on destinations. This session focuses on topics concerning the connections between lifestyle migrants and destination communities. Examples of appropriate topics include the motivations, trajectories and experiences of different kinds of lifestyle migrants, and the dynamics and patterns of integration of lifestyle migrants into destination communities in aspects including (but not limit to) economic, cultural, social, residential, and identity aspects of place. Planning and policy implications for destinations of these new types of migrants are also covered in this session. If you are interested in participating in this session, please submit a copy of your abstract to Prof. Xu Honggang <xuho...@mail.sysu.edu.cn> and Dr. Xing Wei <w.x...@uwinnipeg.ca>. You will need to submit your abstract on the AAG website before 14 October 2012. More information on submitting an abstract for an RTS sponsored session at the AAG Los Angeles meeting can be found at: http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts/sessions/2013.html *Alan A. Lew* <http://alanlew.com/>*, Ph.D., AICP* Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation <http://nau.edu/gpr> Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA ********************************************* *Publications* * *Tourism Geographies <http://tgjournal.com/>* - journal Editor-in-Chief * *World Regional Geography: Human Mobilities, Tourism Destinations & Sustainable Environments <http://www.wrgeography.com/>* * *Understanding & Managing Tourism Impacts*<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415771337/> * My open access articles <http://www.geog.nau.edu/publications/index.html> + GScholar <http://bit.ly/vvfljL> *********************************************** *IGU Tourism Commission-related Conferences <http://tourismgeography.com>* * Recreation, Tourism & Sport Specialty Group <http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts/>, AAG Annual Meeting, 9-13 April 2013, Los Angeles, California, USA * Coastal, Island and Tropical Tourism<http://geog.nau.edu/igust/sabah2013/>, 16-18 April 2013, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia * Sustainable Tourism in Urban Environments<http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/hk2012/>, 8-10 May 2013, Hong Kong * IGU Tourism Commission Pre-Conference, 28 July-3 Aug 2013, Beppu, Japan * IGU Regional Conference, 4-9 July 2013, Kyoto, Japan * Emerging Landscapes and Frontiers in Tourism Research<http://geog.nau.edu/igust/china2013/>, 20-22 September 2013, Kanas N.P., Xinjiang, China ********************************************* * Research Associate, Centre for Innovative Planning and Development, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia * My Blogs: @alew on Twitter <http://twitter.com/alew> * TG Tourism Place<http://tourismplace.blogspot.com/> * Travelography <http://bit.ly/travelography> * * NAU GPR on Facebook <http://bit.ly/GPR-FB> -and Twitter<http://twitter.com/NAUGPR> <http://twitter.com/NAUGPR>* Online GPR Studies <http://nau.edu/gprweb> ********************************************* *"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."* *********************************************
