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The Return Visit-Return Migration Connection

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Tourism and Migration

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The purpose of this chapter is to explore a tentative conceptual connection between return visits, as a form of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) tourism, and return migration. To illustrate this connection, data from a recent study of return visits among members of the Commonwealth Eastern Caribbean community living in Toronto, Canada is presented (Duval, 2001).

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  1. Department of Tourism, School of Business, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

    David Timothy Duval (Lecturer)

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  1. Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand

    C. Michael Hall

  2. Department of Marketing, Stirling University, Scotland

    C. Michael Hall

  3. Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK

    Allan M. Williams

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Duval, D.T. (2002). The Return Visit-Return Migration Connection. 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_14

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