Abstract
Following World War II, many coastal resort areas in southern Europe and the United States, some of which had already gained considerable popularity before the war, experienced a rapid growth in tourist arrivals. Several locations became associated with particular ethnic groups, who migrated to the areas on a temporary basis for a reprieve from northern American and European winters. Before long, however, masses of people, having visited the South on earlier vacations, migrated there on a permanent basis. Some resort communities developed rapidly and began to conform physically and socio-culturally to the dominant immigrant groups. Today, several examples of these tourism-induced urban ethnic islands exist in southern Europe and North America.
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Timothy, D. (2002). Tourism and the Growth of Urban Ethnic Islands. In: Hall, C.M., Williams, A.M. (eds) Tourism and Migration. The GeoJournal Library, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3554-4_7
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