Following the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in demandamong urban residents wanting to visit or move to rural areas. In the Nordic countries,second homes are usually a way to meet this demand. This new movement of peoplebecame increasingly clear on rural islands with high accessibility. Thethesis’ overarching aim is to comprehend how the COVID-19 outbreak impacted thegentrification of rural islands. The study specifically looks at the rise in second homesas a means of examining the gentrification caused by tourism on Öland. This thesismakes use of rural spatial justice, a variant on spatial justice that seeks to explain howsociety and space interact in rural areas. Through a mixed methods approach, aquantitative spatial analysis on price development of second homes, income anddensity of second homes, is supplemented with 8 qualitative interviews. The resultsconfirm the impact of COVID-19 on tourism-driven gentrification in rural islandcommunities. Furthermore, it is evident that rural settlements within rural areas arecomposed of unusually large clusters of areas with high price development, highincome, and a high number of second homes. Second homes have social effects inaddition to an impact on housing prices and the supply of available housing.Inevitably, the second home-driven tourism-induced gentrification is in some way oranother transforming Öland's neighborhoods.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-130125 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Wirsén, William |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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