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<p>Outshopping is consumption behaviour where a consumer leaves the local economy and procures products and services in other local economies. While rural outshopping has been studied in the scientific literature for decades, the consumption structure of urban dwellers in smaller rural settlements has never been precisely mapped. The aim of this study is to understand the basic patterns of urban residents' spending on goods and services in the local economies of small rural settlements, using descriptive methods, comparison and content analysis. Based on the results, we put forward hypotheses that rural outshopping takes place within the nodal region of the city rather than in the wider urban-rural interface, may have a potentially selective character, and the frequency of short-term movement on the city-rural axis may be additional to other dominant intentions for traveling to a rural settlement.</p>
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Outshopping is consumption behaviour where a consumer leaves the local economy and procures products and services in other local economies. While rural outshopping has been studied in the scientific literature for decades, the consumption structure of urban dwellers in smaller rural settlements has never been precisely mapped. The aim of this study is to understand the basic patterns of urban residents' spending on goods and services in the local economies of small rural settlements, using descriptive methods, comparison and content analysis. Based on the results, we put forward hypotheses that rural outshopping takes place within the nodal region of the city rather than in the wider urban-rural interface, may have a potentially selective character, and the frequency of short-term movement on the city-rural axis may be additional to other dominant intentions for traveling to a rural settlement.

Urban Outshopping in Rural Slovakia

European Countryside

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Outshopping is consumption behaviour where a consumer leaves the local economy and procures products and services in other local economies. While rural...

Urban Outshopping in Rural Slovakia

Published Online: Apr 02, 2023

Page range: 34 - 48

Received: Jul 15, 2022

Accepted: Oct 02, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2023-0003

Keywords
short-term population movement, outshopping, rural, urban, consumption

© 2023 Michal Hrivnák et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Urban Outshopping in Rural Slovakia

Published Online: Apr 02, 2023

Page range: 34 - 48

Received: Jul 15, 2022

Accepted: Oct 02, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2023-0003

Keywordsshort-term population movement, outshopping, rural, urban, consumption

© 2023 Michal Hrivnák et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
short-term population movement, outshopping, rural, urban, consumption