Meta-gentrification: a new paradigm in the process of the new wave in sun-and-beach tourism. First approach. The case of Malaga (Spain)
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https://doi.org/10.53596/4azmyr80Keywords:
Co-integration, Displacement, Real stateAbstract
The aim of this article is to analyze, from a quantitative point of view, the impact of a new wave of tourists, who in turn, have gentrified areas where first-generation tourists originally moved in. A considerable number of visitors, particularly from northern Europe, who spend their holidays in the south of Spain, are realizing that there is a significant flow of people who are buying and renting new houses in Malaga. This situation provokes the expulsion of the first-generation tourists, caused by the price increase of real estate and basic services. To add value to this article, the goal is to focus on the analysis that this new wave of meta-gentrification phenomenon in sun-and-beach tourism has specifically in the province of Malaga (Spain).
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