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    • Second-home tourism, mobilities and local development

      Abstract:
      Second homes have been an important part of tourism development in many destinations. Although often little is known about the occurrence and use of second homes, sometimes this “hidden giant” of tourism is an important factor for community development. In many cases second homes represent family heritage and thus, it has been suggested to understand them as ‘alternate’ homes. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the increased digital transformation of work has advanced flexible temporal and spatial arrangements of everyday life for growing groups in society. This enables a greater presence of second-home owners in the destination communities, which implies new challenges and opportunities. Moreover, it also challenges traditional dichotomies of ‘home and away’ or ‘work and leisure’, and thus forces us to rethink the idea of tourism as being exceptional and out of the ordinary. This presentation will introduce topics within second-home tourism research and illustrate these not least with examples and data from northern Europe, arguing that second homes indeed are an essential part of tourism.