Renting out your second home to vacationers is a great way to share your home with others and make a little bit of extra income. Not only that, there are still a lot of advantages of renting your vacation home. Here are some of them:
First, share your home so you'll meet interesting people. Rather than having your home unoccupied, why not share a place you love with others that will likely love it too? 
Renting your vacation home to guests is a great way to meet interesting people. They can build their own memories at your home. Plus, travellers are not like your typical long-term renters. Many of them are homeowners themselves and they will likely treat your home better than someone who has never owned their own home.
Second, fix up and maintain your vacation home at the expense of its own income. You think that fixing up your home is trivial given the little time you are able to spend there. However, you may able to boost that value of your home whilst preparing it for guests and you'll be able to enjoy those great updates yourself, too. Many of the expenses associated with your vacation rental could translate into tax deductions. Furthermore, you may be more likely to discover potential maintenance issues before they turn into serious and costly problem.
Third, maybe the most obvious advantage of renting out your vacation home is the extra income it can give. Whether your extra income will be use to cover a portion of your expenses like insurance, maintenance, homeowners association fees or your mortgage, renting out your home to travellers is a great way to make money on your investment. In addition, one of the advantages of short-term rentals is that you can charge more during peak weeks, thus resulting in more income than if you were to rent to one guest or family all year long.
Last, retire in your second home some day. If you know that retirement is fast approaching, it just makes sense to earn some income from your property when you're not using it yourself. In order to keep the home until you are ready to use it in retirement, you have to rent it out. And this is the best part; you know that you can still use your home not only on retirement buy anytime you wanted. Hence, renting out you vacation home has really a lot of advantages.