The specifics of amenity migration in the European Alps.

Abstract

This chapter presents an overview of the pattern of amenity seeking in the European Alps, where it differs from its common manifestation. It is indicated that amenity seeking in the Alps is mostly comprised of daily, intermittent or seasonal forms without losing physical contact with the larger, mostly outer towns. Because of this, attachment to social life and regional development seems to be more of an enlargement of metropolitan area into the Alps than a contribution to increasing Alpine development potential. A non peri-urbanization-driven amenity migration is still a marginal phenomenon in the Alps, and the reasons for this are outlined.