Utilizing a 'tourism-led amenity migration framework', this chapter employs a case study of second-home migrants in the small mountain town of Fernie, British Columbia. The chapter provides insight into the quality-of-life aspects and implications for planning and development within amenity-rich...

This chapter describes amenity migration to the mountain area known to the Secwepemc as Skwelkwekwelt (British Columbia, Canada), and its environmental and socioeconomic impacts. The chapter gives an insight into the struggle of for cultural survival of an indigenous people, the Secwepemc,...