Routledge Second Home Tourism in Europe: Lifestyle Issues and Policy Responses

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). Review "For those interested in tourism and recreation as an industry or potential community economic development strategy or for those simply seeking a broader view of the general housing market, this is a good book to have on the shelf." - Journal of Regional Science "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 "...this is an easy-to-read book that provides a rich set of both theoretical background and industry experience on the phenomenon of second homes from a multidimensional perspective (i.e. social, cultural, economic, political and environmental). The book nicely integrates theoretical concepts with practical evidence and case studies gathered through a wide spectrum of international regions and destinations. Overall, the book provides a good and holistic overview of the multi-dimensional and dynamic phenomenon of second homes." - Tourism Planning and Development "... an impressive ’state of the art’ compendium of second home research in the European context." - Journal of Housing and the Built Environment About the Author Zoran Roca, Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal Zoran Roca, Chris Paris, Tomas Mazon, Elena Delgado Laguna, Jose A. Hurtado, Antonella Perri, Maria de Nazare Oliveira Roca, Tatyana Nefedova, Judith Pallot, Dieter K. Muller, Jean-Marc Zaninetti, Mervi J. Hiltunen, Kati Pitkanen, Mia Vepsalainen, C. Michael Hall, Olga Karayiannis, Olga Iakovidou, Paris Tsartas, Jose Antonio de Oliveira, Tullio Romita, Tor Arnesen, Birgitta Ericsson, Paul Claval.