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Second Home Tourism: Social and Economic Change in Developing Countries like South Africa

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This chapter deals with an investigation into the social and economic changes induce on rural communities by second home owners in the developing world. Rosendal in the Eastern Free State province of South Africa was utilised as a case study. Socio-economic impacts of second home development contribute to the shift of communities from a productivist to post-productivist countryside. These social and economic changes serve to alter the nature of traditional farming and the face of the rural small-town—resulting in a differentiated countryside. The Rosendal case study findings revealed a shortage of research in South Africa (and elsewhere) about second home owners with lower incomes. Firstly, a critical contribution that will be highlighted is the unraveling of the socio-economic profiles of lower income earners with second homes, who do not necessarily come from cities. Secondly, the phenomenon of these (and city) owners travelling during month-ends from farms/cities to townships or ‘informal dwellings’, may lead to the erosion of/change in the existing socio-cultural fabric, as rural values are mixed with the urban (and farm) values of incomers. Thirdly, to determine to what extend the indicators of a post-productivist countryside can be applied to a developing world environment.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Luke Sandham (NWU), Johnnie Hay (NWU) and Gustav Visser (US) for their valuable comments on an earlier version of this chapter. The usual disclaimers apply.

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The town of Rosendal remains divided into two distinctive areas: the former White group area of Rosendal and its accompanying former Black township Mautse. For ease of writing, I refer to Rosendal, but where analytically important, I make distinction between them. The chapter rely on a Ph.D. investigation done in 2014.

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Hay, A. (2018). Second Home Tourism: Social and Economic Change in Developing Countries like South Africa. In: Müller, D., Więckowski, M. (eds) Tourism in Transitions. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64325-0_6

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