Patuleia, MafaldaAlmeida, Cláudia RibeiroFerreira, Ana Maria Alves Pedro2014-07-192014-07-1920111647-1989http://hdl.handle.net/10437/5343It's increasingly varied the way tourism is practised. This reflects both in the complexity of the tourism market and the plurality of social behaviour. Tourism activity has been in the last few years a stage for structural change, always being updated and trying to keep up with a sort of tourist that is ever increasingly demanding, experienced and informed. These well known transformations were the cause for a rise in tourism practises, including a search for Residential Tourism. Throughout this paper, we will assume that Residential Tourism relates to a second home abroad and we will look at this in a first instance. But we will also look at integrated resorts that, in themselves, incorporate a diverse choice in accommodation and entertainment. Since this is a complex area, discussing these issues has given rise to pertinent questions about what they mean, and the way it is practised. Therefore, we will propose an update of meanings that can be closer to current tourism practices by using conceptual analysis, history and representativeness.application/pdfporopenAccessTURISMOTOURISMTURISMO RESIDENCIALRESIDENTIAL TOURISMRESORTSarticle