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Second Home Tourism in Europe

Lifestyle Issues and Policy Responses

Second Home Tourism in Europe Website price:£63.00 (Regular price: £70.00)

Imprint: Ashgate
Illustrations: Includes 55 b&w illustrations and 17 maps
Published: June 2013
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 358 pages
Binding: Hardback
Other editions: ebook ePUB, ebook PDF
ISBN: 978-1-4094-5071-9
ISBN Short: 9781409450719
BL Reference: 306.4'819-dc23
LoC Control No: 2012038426

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Edited by Zoran Roca, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal

Bringing together a wide range of studies from twelve European countries, this book offers a state-of-the-art overview of the driving forces behind spatial diversity and social complexity inherent in second home expansion in all parts of the continent - from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from the British Isles to Russia - in the context of contemporary mobility patterns largely induced by tourism. As befits the overall conception of the book as a compendium of current second home research, planning and policy issues, the book endorses the following: multidisciplinary approaches to the second home phenomenon as an expression of the ‘leisure class’ mobility and recreation-based lifestyles, as well as a constitutive element of post-productivist land-use patterns and landscape change; and socio-economic and territorial development planning and policy-related perspectives on social change and spatial re-organization provoked by the expansion of second home tourism in times of prosperity and crisis.

‘This book shows that second home tourism has become such an important sector of the economy that it is no longer possible to let it develop freely: it is the source of new forms of social deprivation; it generates residential economies that are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle; it often impairs beautiful landscapes and increases human pressure on natural environments. As a result, it is one of the major physical planning stakes of touristic areas’ (From the concluding essay by Paul Claval, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne, Paris, France).

Contents: Introduction, Zoran Roca; Part I Owning Second Homes: from Transnational Crisis to Place Attachment: Second home ownership since the global financial crisis in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Chris Paris; Mortgaged tourists. The case of the south coast of Alicante (Spain), Tomás Mazón, Elena Delgado Laguna and José A. Hurtado; Residential roots tourism in Italy, Antonella Perri; Place attachment among second home owners: the case of the Oeste region, Portugal, Maria de Nazaré Oliveira Roca. Part II Back to Nature: between Urban Sprawl and Countryside Idyll: The multiplicity of second home development in the Russian Federation: a case of ‘seasonal suburbanization’?, Tatyana Nefedova and Judith Pallot; Second homes and outdoor recreation: a Swedish perspective on second home use and complementary spaces, Dieter K. Müller; Vacation homes in France since 1962, Jean-Marc Zaninetti; Second home tourism in Finland: current trends and eco-social impacts, Mervi J. Hiltunen, Kati Pitkänen, Mia Vepsäläinen and C. Michael Hall. Part III Leisure Housing Expansion: Driving Forces and Policy Choices: Historic, symbolic aspects and policy issues of the second home phenomenon in the Greek tourism context: the Cyclades case study, Olga Karayiannis, Olga Iakovidou and Paris Tsartas; Controversies of second homes and residential tourism in Portugal, José António de Oliveira; Lifestyles and consumption of do-it-yourself residential tourists in Italy, Tullio Romita; Policy responses to the evolution in leisure housing: from the plain cabin to the high standard second home (the Norwegian case), Tor Arnesen and Birgitta Ericsson. Part IV Conclusion: Evolving forms of mobility and settlement: second homes and tourism in Europe, Paul Claval; Index.

Reviews: ‘Second Home Tourism in Europe provides a broad-ranging, informative and research-based contemporary assessment of the contribution and impacts of second-home developments in a wide range of European countries. This contribution is timely … I would recommend this publication to researchers and policy-makers concerned with this increasingly influential but somewhat neglected aspect of lifestyle mobility.’
Norman McIntyre, Lakehead University, Canada

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