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Caroline Bontet graduated from the University of La Rochelle in Geography, more specifically in coastal areas’ management. During her Master’s degree, she focused on the touristic practices of Japanese people, along the Honshû coastline, Japan’s main island. Then, she joined the observatory of the Touristic Development Agency of Charente-Maritime, where she further analysed tourism and its territorial consequences. She monitored several studies and coordinated the team and the connections with all the partners involved in these studies, including the one about second homes’ owners in Charente-Maritime.
The frequent comings and goings within various living places characterise second home owners. Neither truly tourist nor inhabitant in the region of their second home, this population category is hybrid, because they ...