CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.32 on Thursday, April 4. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

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.

Keywords: Second homes, mobilities, local development, digital transformation, destinations

Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)

Date/Time: Thursday 4 April 2024  |  18:30-20:00(JST)

Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)

Language: English

Capacity: 50 persons

Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)

Speaker: Dr. Dieter K. Müller
Bio:
Dieter K. Müller is professor of Human Geography, Umeå University Sweden, where he also in 1999 received his PhD on a thesis addressing international second-home ownership. Since then, he has continued to delve into various aspects of second home tourism, published for example in two volumes Mobility, Tourism and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground (2004) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and Mobilities (2018), both co-edited with C. M. Hall. In addition, Müller has developed a research interest for the economic geographies of Arctic tourism and other tourism in peripheral areas. Particularly, focus has been on the position of indigenous people in tourism and labor market issues in these northern regions. Between 2008 and 2020 Müller has been a member of the International Geographical Union Commission for the Tourism, Leisure and Global Change, serving since 2012 also as chairperson. Today, he is a co-editor of the Springer book series Tourism and Global Change, and has various editorial roles for journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft. Since 2023, he is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu

Registration:
Please register at the URL below. 
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jwf5c6mQS7Od5LxyV8XjJQ

Contact:
Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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