Residential tourism and depeasantisation in the Ecuadorian Andes

Gascón, Jordi

doi:10.1080/03066150.2015.1052964

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“…ii Vilcabamba is an outlier within Ecuador in terms of its fast land market dynamics. Land market acceleration in Ecuador has caught the attention of other researchers that have reported it according to localities, such as Cotacachi (Gascón, 2015) and Cuenca city (Hayes, 2014).…”

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“…As more citizens from developed countries in the north seek attractive places to retire, Ecuador is a highly competitive destination within South America because of its natural amenities, low cost of living and social security. The aforementioned citizens that are moving to Ecuador are part of a 'life-style migration' process (Gascón, 2015;Hayes, 2015;Janoschka, 2009). Such types of migration promote local inhabitants displacement, land use changes, transformations of the territory, and an implicit social change.…”

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“…But in the case of North American migrants relocating to Cuenca, ideals of “successful” ageing are also bound up with global inequalities that migrants attempt to confront to make sense of their emplacement and its impact. Previous studies point to potential displacement of lower income and marginalised groups (Bastos, ; Gascón, ; Mollett, ). Recent scholarship at the crossroads of migration and ageing has sought to move away from “tropes” of the vulnerability of older migrants (Ciobanu et al., ; King et al., ), but has yet to fully engage with how vulnerabilities may be modified through practices of geoarbitrage, or relocation from high income to lower income regions (Hayes, ).…”

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The gringos of Cuenca: How retirement migrants perceive their impact on lower income communities

Hayes

2018

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This paper looks at the concern North Americans express about the impact their relatively higher incomes are having on lower income workers in Cuenca, Ecuador. North Americans who retire to Cuenca often perceive their impact to be minimal or benign, yet a large amount of discussion within the community of “expat” migrants is about different ways North Americans are affecting the local economy, and how to minimise these impacts. Of particular concern is the racialised price system that migrants perceive to be in effect. North Americans racialise their economic impact, seeing “gringo pricing,” rather than their higher incomes, as a threat to the receiving community. Participants evoked moral codes to discuss price levels, and sought to diminish their impact – not merely out of concern for Ecuadorians who might be displaced by higher prices, but out of a sense of ruining the authenticity of Cuenca, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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“…In the case of Ecuador, there is some academic research that deals with this economic sector. The most relevant are from Ruiz-Ballesteros (2011), Erskine and Meyer (2012), Ruiz-Ballesteros and Brondizio (2013), Everingham (2015) and Gascón (2015).…”

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Economic Contribution of Ecotourism, Motivations and Satisfaction: the Case of Puerto El Morro (Ecuador)

Christiansen

2019

European Journal of Social Sciences

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The scientific review of Natural Protected Areas as sites to perform economic activities related to tourism is recent. It is well known that ecotourism is a leading generator of business, the level of employment in certain sites depends upon it, and also helps to strengthen the household economy of vulnerable communities while preserving it. This paper presents an empirical research carried out in Puerto El Morro (Ecuador-South America). The purpose of this paper is to identify the socio-demographic profile of the visitors, their motivations and the level of satisfaction declared after the tourist experience. This analysis is based on 585 surveys collected from hikers after the visit. The results provide evidence and describe a majority of young and educated visitors who declared having obtained a university degree and a monthly income of less than US USD 1500.00. The results highlight that contact with nature and bird and dolphin watching were respectively the main push and pull motivational factors. A high level of satisfaction is reported, which generates positive actions after the visit, such as: repetition of the visit, recommendation of the place and positive word of mouth. These findings are essential for the design or adaptation of tourism marketing strategies that respond to this segment, so that this site becomes a suggestive place as a natural destination that allows expansion in economic output and leads to positive impacts on gross capital formation for sustainable development within the community.

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Residential tourism and depeasantisation in the Ecuadorian Andes

Cited by 39 publications

References 25 publications

Factors influencing land fractioning in the context of land market deregulation in Ecuador

Factors influencing land fractioning in the context of land market deregulation in Ecuador

The gringos of Cuenca: How retirement migrants perceive their impact on lower income communities

Economic Contribution of Ecotourism, Motivations and Satisfaction: the Case of Puerto El Morro (Ecuador)

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