ABSTRACT
It has been argued that tourism constitutes a form of leisure-oriented mobility and as such, it is both shaped by and contributes to the shaping of contemporary practices of consumption, production and lifestyle (see Lew et al. , 2004). Tourism has signifi cantly infl uenced the mapping of potential destinations for different forms of leisure-oriented mobility, such as second home ownership, amenity-seeking seasonal migration or international retirement migration (IRM), and has also contributed to the intensifi cation and diversifi cation of these forms of contemporary mobility in recent decades.
