Resumen de Tourism movements to the place of birth
In any analysis of tourism behaviour it is obvious that certain factors such as personal feelings, family ties or culture will weigh heavily in choosing a given destination and remaining loyal to it afterwards. To glean more information on this matter, the Spanish Domestic and Outbound Tourism Survey (Familitur) has included the variable "place of birth" in it's questionnaire since 2000, and the information has proved to be highly revealing. In Spain many trips are made to hometowns, and this trend is enhanced even further by the existence of a large number of second bornes, which make accommodation in the hometown easier. It is estimated that 21% of households in Spain have access to a second honre. Although the Spanish case might be particularly significant, the inclusion of the place of birth in tourism surveys may well be of general interest. The large-scale migratory movements during the second half of the last century mean that many people now live faz from their hometown (in Spain this percentage is estimated to be close to 50%), though they often still have part of their family in those places together with economic interests (such as a house) and of course strong family ties in general. Confirmation of the general nature of this kind of hometown trip would shed much light on the tourism phenomenon as whole while also explaining why so many of these tourists decide to settle down in their old hometowns on retirement. This is in fact the typical case of Spanish emigrants
