Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies. This volume offers an overview of different disciplinary and methodological approaches to second home tourism while simultaneously providing a broad geographical reach.

1 Second Home Tourism: An introduction; 2 Governing and Planning for Second Homes; 3 The Role of Second Homes in a Mediterranean Coastal Mass Tourism Destination: An evolutionary perspective; 4 Second Homes and the Commons: Terms for second home leaseholds and collective action in Kvarken Archipelago, Finland; 5 Rights to the Rural: Comparison of political and property/land rights of second home owners in Canada, Finland and Poland; 6 National Mexican Tourism Policy and North American Second Homeowners in Mexico: Local tourism development and Mexican Identity; 7 Recreational Second Home Governance in China: Policy implementation and structural framework; 8 The Rise and Fall of the Houses of attefall: Effects of reduced building regulation in coastal municipalities with large numbers of second homes; 9 Displacement and Second Homes: Full circle or time to move on?; 10 From Common Ground to Elite and Commercial Landscape; 11 Uncertain benefits: how second home tourism impacts community economy; 12 Undervaluing a sector: The enigma of micro-enterprise self-contained accommodation in Australia; 13 Australian holiday homes: Places of escape and sites of investment; 14 From Socialist Yugoslavia to the European Union: Second Home Development in Croatia and Slovenia; 15 Stretching the boundaries: building the Russian dacha dream; 16 Second Home Tourism in Sicily: development, current trend and future outlook; 17 Changing social structure of second home owners in Poland; 18 Community, Culture and Identities; 19 Second homes, their users and relations to the rural space and the resident communities in Czechia; 20 Do second home owners only play a secondary role in coastal territories? A case study in Charente-Maritime (France); 21 Host community perceptions of international permanent tourists: The case of Didim, Turkey; 22 The moral dilemma of second-home owners’ position in the host community; 23 The family and the second home: On building sandcastles, sharing places and the passing of time; 24 From makeshift to makeover: Materialising the beach shack as architectural heritage; 25 Caravanning and mobile second homes; 26 Caravan Cultures: Second homes on wheels; 27 Caravan People and Space Attachment; 28 Wherever I park my RV, that’s my home: freedom camping and local community tensions in eastern Australia; 29 Follow the sun: Retirees motorhomes´ movements, meanings and practices during the winter season in the Algarve; 30 The Future of Second Homes

‘Coppock’s 1977 volume was the seminal academic contribution which established second homes as a research focus. Its role was overtaken by Hall and Müller’s Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground in 2004. The Routledge Handbook of Second Homes now assume this leadership role and takes the discourse further by providing a comprehensive overview second homes and provocative insights from leading scholars into this phenomenon.’ - Gustav Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa ‘Drawing together an array of contributions from numerous international contexts, this edited collection reminds us of how the practice of second home tourism continues to be an important phenomenon in regions throughout the world. In critically reviewing recent developments from a range of diverse perspectives, the authors have made a very important contribution to the literature.’ - Bernadette Quinn, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland.