Short communication, Note

Snowballing in 35oC: an inquiry into second-home tourism in Mozambique

Gijsbert Hoogendoorn orcid.org/0000-0001-7969-7952 ; Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Andreas Back orcid.org/0000-0003-2299-6833 ; Department of Geography, Samhällsvetarhuset, Umeå Universitet, Umeå, Sweden

Abstract

Increased mobility has played an important role in promoting and developing tourism as a global phenomenon. One result since the late 1990s has been the development of the well-researched second-home tourism phenomenon in the Global North. Fewer studies on second-home tourism have been carried out in the Global South, especially in the least developed countries (LDCs). The difficulty of collecting reliable data in LDCs is presented as a key contributing factor to the lack of studies. Whereas researchers in, for example, the Nordic countries have access to comprehensive public registries of second homes enabling large-scale data-driven research, studying this phenomenon in data-poor contexts requires appropriate fieldwork methods and strategies. The following research note discusses snowballing and participant observation methods employed in fieldwork on second-home tourism in two small coastal Mozambican towns. It concludes with a brief discussion on the findings and the prospects for future research in historically and socio-economically comparable locations.

Keywords

second homes; tourism; snowball sampling; Mozambique

Hrčak ID:

225761

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225761

Publication date:

30.9.2019.

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