Generational challenges of resident-destination bonding

Abstract

This article explores how generational challenges of resident-destination bonding diversify, evolve, and persist for small host communities. The research analyses two qualitative case studies with distinctive and contrasting contexts of intergenerational differences, migration patterns, and socio-political contexts. Three findings are highlighted for theoretical and practical implications. First, destination locals and migrants vary their generational experiences of emplaced frustration, troubled rootedness, lived outsidedness, and forced displacement. Second, the evolution of intergenerational destination challenges is co-influenced differently by politico-economic configuration, population geographic mobility and community tourism development. Third, the role of local tourism must be considered in addressing persistent community issues, including troubled rootedness in young adulthood, ageing with emplaced frustration, and migrants' continuing sense of outsidedness over the life course.