Town with tourism or vacationing as a primary attraction
Not to be confused with holiday village or resort village.
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A resort town, resort city or resort destination is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding area. Sometimes the term resort town is used simply for a locale popular among tourists. One task force in British Columbia used the definition of an incorporated or unincorporated contiguous area where the ratio of transient rooms, measured in bed units, is greater than 60% of the permanent population.[1]
Generally, tourism is the main export in a resort town economy, with most residents of the area working in the tourism or resort industry. Shops and luxury boutiques selling locally themed souvenirs, motels, and unique restaurants often proliferate the downtown areas of a resort town.
In the case of the United States, resort towns were created around the late 1800s and early 1900s with the development of early town-making.[2] Many resort towns feature ambitious architecture, romanticizing their location, and dependence on cheap labor.[2]
^Transitions: Planning, Servicing, and Local Governance in BC's Resort Communities (PDF) (Report). Vol. 1: Best Practices Project. Government of British Columbia. December 2004.
^ abCrewe, Katherine. "Chandler's Hotel San Marcos: The Resort Impact on a Rural Town." Journal of Urban Design 16.1 (2011): 87-104. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 November 2014.
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