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

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (358 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317058519
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 333.33/8
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Owning Second Homes: From Transnational Crisis to Place Attachment -- 1 Second Home Ownership since the Global Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom and Ireland -- 2 Mortgaged Tourists: The Case of the South Coast of Alicante (Spain) -- 3 Residential Roots Tourism in Italy -- 4 Place Attachment among Second Home Owners: The Case of the Oeste Region, Portugal -- PART II: Back to Nature: Between Urban Sprawl and Countryside Idyll -- 5 The Multiplicity of Second Home Development in the Russian Federation: A Case of 'Seasonal Suburbanization'? -- 6 Second Homes and Outdoor Recreation: A Swedish Perspective on Second Home Use and Complementary Spaces -- 7 Vacation Homes in France since 1962 -- 8 Second Home Tourism in Finland: Current Trends and Eco-social Impacts -- PART III: Leisure Housing Expansion: Driving Forces and Policy Choices -- 9 Historic, Symbolic Aspects and Policy Issues of the Second Home Phenomenon in the Greek Tourism Context: The Cyclades Case Study -- 10 Controversies of Second Homes and Residential Tourism in Portugal -- 11 Lifestyles and Consumption of Do-it-Yourself Residential Tourists in Italy -- 12 Policy Responses to the Evolution in Leisure Housing: From the Plain Cabin to the High Standard Second Home (The Norwegian Case) -- PART IV: Conclusion -- 13 Evolving Forms of Mobility and Settlement: Second Homes and Tourism in Europe -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Owning Second Homes: From Transnational Crisis to Place Attachment -- 1 Second Home Ownership since the Global Financial Crisis in the United Kingdom and Ireland -- 2 Mortgaged Tourists: The Case of the South Coast of Alicante (Spain) -- 3 Residential Roots Tourism in Italy -- 4 Place Attachment among Second Home Owners: The Case of the Oeste Region, Portugal -- PART II: Back to Nature: Between Urban Sprawl and Countryside Idyll -- 5 The Multiplicity of Second Home Development in the Russian Federation: A Case of 'Seasonal Suburbanization'? -- 6 Second Homes and Outdoor Recreation: A Swedish Perspective on Second Home Use and Complementary Spaces -- 7 Vacation Homes in France since 1962 -- 8 Second Home Tourism in Finland: Current Trends and Eco-social Impacts -- PART III: Leisure Housing Expansion: Driving Forces and Policy Choices -- 9 Historic, Symbolic Aspects and Policy Issues of the Second Home Phenomenon in the Greek Tourism Context: The Cyclades Case Study -- 10 Controversies of Second Homes and Residential Tourism in Portugal -- 11 Lifestyles and Consumption of Do-it-Yourself Residential Tourists in Italy -- 12 Policy Responses to the Evolution in Leisure Housing: From the Plain Cabin to the High Standard Second Home (The Norwegian Case) -- PART IV: Conclusion -- 13 Evolving Forms of Mobility and Settlement: Second Homes and Tourism in Europe -- Index.

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.

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