Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and Mobilities

<p>Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies. They can directly and indirectly contribute a significant number of domestic and international visitors to destinations and may be part of longer-term retirement lifestyle and amenity migration that can have significant economic and social effects on communities and destination development.</p><p></p><p>This volume offers an overview of different disciplinary and methodological approaches to second homes while simultaneously providing a broad geographical reach. Divided into four parts exploring governance development community and mobile second homes the book provides a contemporary account of the major issues in an area of growing international interest.</p><p></p><p>This timely handbook covers a wide range of dimensions - from planning to the role of second homes in development and the management of their impact. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions will be of interest to numerous academic fields in the social sciences as well as urban and regional planners.</p>