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Second-Home Owners: Escaping, Investing or Retiring?
Tourism Geographies, 2010Abstract This article employs the 2006 EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions to examine the characteristics of second-home owners in the Republic of Ireland. Its purpose is to explore the relevance to the Irish case of the three key demand-side drivers of second-home ownership which are most prominent in this literature.
Michelle Norris, Nessa Winston
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Second home owners, locals and their perspectives on rural development
Journal of Rural Studies, 2013Abstract Dominating strands within the research literature on second homes explain social conflicts between rural hosting and visiting second home populations by describing their differing perspectives on rural development. Such presentations suggest that locals are likely to welcome new developments in order to enhance the economic viability of ...
Maja Farstad, Johan Fredrik Rye
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Understanding Place Attachment Among Second Home Owners
American Behavioral Scientist, 2006Many high amenity rural communities are growing rapidly and have high rates of seasonal residence, with concomitant “impacts” on longer term permanent residents. The de facto stance that seasonal residents are “outsiders” marginalizes their experience and treats as givens questions that should remain open to empirical scrutiny.
Richard C Stedman
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Reinventing the Countryside: German Second-home Owners in Southern Sweden
Current Issues in Tourism, 2002During the 1990s, second-home tourism experienced renewed interest in the industrialised world. German tourists, who discovered the nearby Swedish countryside, contributed to the new second-home tourism patterns. During a five-year period from 1991 to 1996 the number of German second-home owners in Sweden increased from 1500 to more than 5500.
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The meaning of rental second homes and places: the owners’ perspectives
Tourism Geographies, 2015This paper is based on a review of owners’ perspectives of two sun and golf destinations – Albufeira (in the south of Portugal) and Islantilla (in the south of Spain), using a cross-regional sample, based on owners’ descriptions collected from ownersdirect.co.uk (online vacation rental platform).
Joana Afonso Dias +2 more
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International Journal of Tourism Research, 2023
AbstractThe number and severity of extreme weather events have been increasing globally. Given the vulnerabilities of second homes to natural disasters, it is important to learn how their owners consider the related risks. This paper investigates the extreme weather‐event risk perceptions and their preconditions between second‐home owners and local ...
Adam Czarnecki +3 more
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AbstractThe number and severity of extreme weather events have been increasing globally. Given the vulnerabilities of second homes to natural disasters, it is important to learn how their owners consider the related risks. This paper investigates the extreme weather‐event risk perceptions and their preconditions between second‐home owners and local ...
Adam Czarnecki +3 more
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Local Residents' Valuation of Second Home Owners' Presence in a Sparsely Inhabited Area
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2013AbstractMany rural communities are experiencing a reduced full-time population who are to a certain degree being replaced by an influx of part-time dwellers from urban areas. This paper examines how second home owners' presence can be perceived as a valuable compensation for a reduced full-time population by the remaining local residents, when it comes
Maja Farstad
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