Tourism along the Costa del Sol, Spain, is built around the classic ‘sun and sea’ style budget holidays and a culture of British migrants, sometimes referred to as ‘residential tourists’, who reside seasonally or permanently in the region. My focus is on the cultural interactions between local street cats and human residents and tourists. See here to follow this project.

ISAZ2026 Poster

Related Publications

K. Hill (2024). Humano–Cat Cultures and Tourist Attitudes Towards Local Free-Living Cats of the Costa Del Sol, in Emerging Voices for Animals in Tourism, edited by J. Hooper and C. Kline. Chapter 9, pp. 99-114. CABI. DOI: 10.1079/9781800625259.0009

Download a copy of my chapter below. And recommend a copy of the book be added to your university library!

K. Hill (2025). Cats, Community, and Tourism on the Costa del Sol: A Transspecies Ethnography. Tourism Geographies, 27(8), 1700–1718.
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2025.2581193

Download a copy below.

See here for a full list of my publications.

PDF copies of Publications

I am also happy to share any of my papers that are stuck behind a paywall via ResearchGate

Previous Presentations

5-Minute Overview (2024)

 Sounds of the Seaside (2025)

K. Hill (2025, 28-29 November). Sounds of the Seaside: A Multi-Species Sonic Ethnography of a Cat Colony on the Costa del Sol. Music & Cats, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany (Online). Programme here.

[Do Not] Feed the Cats (2025)

K. Hill (2025, 6-8 November). [Do Not] Feed the Cats: Feeding as Care, Spectacle, and Conflict. The Anthrozoology Symposium, Eighth Edition: Conscious Beings: Rethinking Animality and Awareness, The Institute of Economic and Social Research, Iași, Romania (Online). Programme here.

“Oh look, another kitty!” (2025)

K. Hill (2025, 14-15 May). “Oh look, another kitty!”: Sun, Sea, and a Cat Colony living on the Costa del Sol. The Cat’s Pyjamas – Cats in Society and Culture 2, Uppsala University, Sweden. Programme here.

What’s in it for the cats? (2026)

K. Hill (2026, 27-29 March). What’s in it for the cats? Exeter Anthrozoology Conference, University of Exeter, UK (Online). Programme here.