Secondhome mobility in Finland : patterns, practices and relations of leisure oriented mobile lifestyle
The paper focuses on leisure oriented mobile lifestyle between urban home and rural secondhome Finland. Helsinki metropolitan dwellers have the longest trips to secondhomes which is explained not merely by environ-mental but by historical
, societal and social reasons as well. Secondhome related social mobility practices are dependent on cottage owners’ and users’ life phase and standard of secondhomes. Retiring baby boom generation is the largest and most active cottager group and after
retirement the use of secondhomes in¬creases remarkably. The vast majority of secondhome owners and users travel the cottage trips by private cars and wish to spend at least as much time at rural secondhome as present.
Secondhome owners’ perceptions of a polluted environment : the case of Hartbeespoort
Environment ; Environmental degradation ; Environmental management ; Secondhome ; South Africa ; Tourism ; Tourism policy
Secondhomes tourism has shown that the scenic natural environment influences the location and development of secondhomes. Attention is directed to the potential impact degraded environments can have on secondhomes tourism and more specifically
New trends in the dynamism of secondhomes expansion into not attractive areas from tourist point of view
Objects of individual recreation are distributed in attractive and non attractive areas from tourist point of view. Proportion of secondhomes on the housing fund of settlements is demonstrated in the Osoblaha frontier region in Silesia
Changing countrysides, changing villages : secondhomes in Rhodes, South Africa
Economic impact ; Landscape ; Leisure ; Rural area ; Secondhome ; South Africa
The paper concludes that coinciding with the post-productivist changes in the Rhodes countryside, secondhome ownership has contributed to employment creation and has had a varied tourism and regional impact which has added much needed support
Impact ; Local government unit ; Rural settlement ; Secondhome ; Slovenia ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial distribution ; Upper Carniola ; Village
The article deals with the issue of secondhome development in the Municipality of Kranjska Gora. Secondhomes are one of the main causes of transformation in the morphology of the traditional village-based settlements. The main part of the paper
focuses on the spatial distribution of registered secondhomes in the town of Kranjska Gora and shows their locations on detail scale maps. In addition, the AA. also present and spatially analyze the regional origins of the secondhomes owners. - (IKR)
Housing ; Poland ; Rural area ; Rural development ; Secondhome ; Spatial distribution ; Tourism
The paper analyzes the factors which affect the distribution of secondhomes in Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship and the spatial relations between secondhomes and the formal tourist accommodation. Primary quantitative data were used to describe
the distribution of secondhomes in Kujawsko-Pomorskie voivodeship and to validate the observation that secondhomes are an important component of tourist infrastructure in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie region and that their distribution differs from the distribution
Tourism, modernity and the consumption of home in China
China ; Home ; Modernity ; Performativity ; Sense of belonging ; Social geography ; Tourism ; Yunnan
This article examines tourism, modernity and the consumption of home in China. First, it examines why home is woven into the touristic imagination of Lijiang; and second, it links tourists' personal experiences with China's broad sociospatial
transformation in order to explore individuals' resistance against and compliance with modernity. It concludes tha the imagination and consumption of home generates intensely contradictory configurations of struggle that simultaneously push tourists towards
an ideal of home for inner freedom and premodern paradise, yet pull them back into the whirling vortex of ‘modern’ life and commercial forces.
From secondhome to primary residence : migration towards recreational properties in Sweden 1991-2005
Age group ; Diffusion ; Geographical information system ; Internal migration ; Life cycle ; Origin-destination ; Retirement migration ; Secondhome ; Sweden ; Tourism
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the conversion of secondhomes into primary residences, with respect to timing and geographical patterns. A geo-referenced longitudinal population database allows for identifying converted properties