Lifestyles and Consumption of Do-It-Yourself Residential Tourists in Italy

During the preparing of this paper we will try to illustrate the knowledge and experience gained in over ten years of studies and research on tourism of private houses. However, we will give ample space and detail to some of the conclusions we have reached through a search that began over three years ago, through which we have studied the do-it-yourself tourists (as a social figure that is generated during the process of developing of local tourism industry based on the idea of the cottage; McCannel 1976) and what happens in the local contexts in which tourism is developed in a spontaneous and outside of the official tourist market (ie in contexts where tourism is very popular unofficial do-it-yourself bored through private houses for vacation).In short, everything is dealt with in this paper will cover what we have hitherto called "Undetected Tourism”, but here, also to standardize our language to that in use at the international level, will also call "Residential Tourism".Therefore, we find it useful to define the meaning in this work, and with reference to Italy, we assign the term "residential tourism", which we will do in the next section.