Reconceptualising urban space with second home tourism: The emergence of an urban second-home tourism enclave

Growing interest surrounds second homes in tourism and urban planning. Despite the strong conceptual foundation pertaining to rural second -home tourism, limited discourse assesses its development mechanisms and impacts in urban contexts. By leveraging enclave concepts from geography, this study employs a socio-spatial perspective to examine how second -home tourism shapes the urban environment. A case study approach was adopted to investigate the formation of second -home tourism spaces in Sanya, China. Findings from 34 semi -structured interviews with key stakeholders identified three attributes differentiating second -home tourism spaces from their surroundings. These findings inform the development of a conceptual framework for understanding the emergence of second -home tourism enclaves, which considers potential economic leakage and threats to sustainable urban development. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).