Mechanisms for Sustaining the Local Labor Markets in International Mountain Resorts
A Case Study of Whistler, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21349014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo KOMURO (University of Tsukuba, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-46 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-135X • E-ISSN: 1884-0884 |
| Publisher | Tokyo Geographical Society (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.5026/jgeography.131.23 |
| OpenAlex | W4220700101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 27 |
This study aims to elucidate the mechanisms for sustaining local labor markets in international mountain resorts according to their regional characteristics, focusing on foreign labor. It remains unclear how international mountain resorts, which have recently struggled to secure labor to accommodate a growing number of visiting tourists, have successfully attracted outside labor to sustain local labor markets. In this case study, Whistler is an example of a resort with an imbalance between the supply and demand of labor due to an increase in demand. When analyzing labor market results in this region, a mechanism emerges that includes two processes for supplying external labor. First, the process involving those who are willing to improve their language or professional skills and obtain permanent residence rights through work promotion, changing work, or starting businesses to establish themselves in a community. Second, the process of seasonal workers going abroad with working holiday visas and for recreational purposes. A specific social regulation effect overcomes three mismatches (space, temporal, and skills) and sustains these local labor markets. In other words, the international labor force travels abroad from one market to another when the spatial divergence is resolved. The process of permanent settlement or seasonal stay of workers is enabled by addressing the divergence between temporal elements and skills in these local labor markets
Business · Demographic economics · Destinations · Economics · Geography · Labor demand · Labor relations · Labour economics · Political science · Promotion (chess) · Recreation · Residence · Settlement (finance) · Supply and demand · Tourism · Wage · Work (physics) · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Engineering · Finance · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
The amenity migrants
Seasonality in Tourism
Planning for Amenity Migration in Canada
Resort-induced Changes in Small Mountain Communities in British Columbia, Canada
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour
Migrant workers
Tourists for hire
Demand fluctuations, labour flexibility and productivity
Working tourists and their attitudes to hosts
Amenity migration to mountain regions
Labour Flexibility and Regional Development
Solving seasonality in tourism? Labour shortages and guest worker programmes in the USA
Tourism's labour geographies
Tourism, Capital, and Place
From nations of immigrants to states of transience
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |