Airbnb: Exciting innovation or passing fad?

Varma, Arup; Jukić, Nenad; Peštek, Almir; Shultz, Clifford J.; Nestorov, Svetlozar

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2016.09.002

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“…In those cities, we can also expect the traditional lodging industry to keep on pressuring local policy making. That said, there are also signs that hotels are changing their strategies due to the competition from Airbnb and respond to current tourism trends (Varma et al, 2016). Looking at the way how the traditional lodging industries respond to current regulations and the growing competition from Airbnb could be a further research avenue.…”

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“…Researched aspects range from motivations of hosts and guests to use Airbnb (Guttentag, Smith, Potwarka, & Havitz, 2017;Ikkala & Lampinen, 2015;Stors & Kagermeier, 2015;Varma, Jukic, Pestek, Shultz, & Nestorov, 2016) and the economic impact for the wider community (Fang et al, 2016;Holm, 2016) to the spatial pattern of Airbnb in cities (Arias-Sans & Quaglieri, 2016;Cócola Gant, 2016;Gutiérrez et al, 2017). Airbnb's quick development can be placed within the context of postmodern tourism.…”

Section: Regulating the Impact Of Airbnbmentioning

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Regulating Airbnb: how cities deal with perceived negative externalities of short-term rentals

Nieuwland

Melik

2018

Current Issues in Tourism

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In recent years, home-sharing platform Airbnb has developed into a major player in the tourism sector. It allows tourists to have authentic, off-thebeaten-track experiences in neighbourhoods previously unvisited. Although neighbourhoods can profit from increased attention and income, Airbnb and other short-term rentals (STRs) can also be disruptive to the traditional lodging industry and trigger gentrification processes; housing affordability and availability are jeopardized when housing units are turned into vacation rentals. Local governments worldwide are struggling to regulate STRs and their negative externalities. This paper focuses on key challenges cities face when dealing with STR platforms and the rationale behind different regulatory approaches. It first compares policies of 11 European and American cities and then zooms in on Denver to see how it regulates the impact of Airbnb. Most cities are relatively lenient towards STRs, with little to no (complete) prohibition. Instead, they limit the number of guests, nights and times a property can be rented, demand certain safety precautions and information provision, or require primary residency. Regulations are mostly directed to mitigate neighbourhood impacts, rather than creating a level playing field for the traditional lodging industry. Enforcement remains difficult due to the STR market's dynamic nature and online practice. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Regulating Airbnb: how cities deal with perceived negative externalities of short-term rentals

Nieuwland

Melik

2018

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…The evolving nature and dynamics of experiential consumption, enabled by the disruption of the sharing economy, requires the hotel industry to be proactive and more expansive in its creation of customer value (Varma et al, 2016). Contemporary marketing practitioners have adopted such a holistic paradigm in the form of content marketing.…”

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The accommodation experiencescape: a comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb

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Lehto

2017

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Purpose Accommodations providers in the sharing economy are increasingly competing with the hotel industry vis-à-vis the guest experience. Additionally, experience-related research remains underrepresented in the hospitality and tourism literature. This paper aims to develop and test a model of experiential consumption to provide a better understanding of an emerging phenomenon in the hospitality industry. In so doing, the authors also expand Pine and Gilmore’s original experience economy construct. Design/methodology/approach Using data from a survey of 630 customers who stayed at a hotel or an Airbnb in the previous three months, the authors performed a multi-step analysis procedure centered on structural equation modeling to validate the model. Findings The authors demonstrate that the dimensions of serendipity, localness, communitas and personalization represent valuable additions to Pine and Gilmore’s original experience economy construct. Airbnb appears to outperform the hotel industry in the provision of all experience dimensions. The authors further define the pathways that underlie the creation of extraordinary, memorable experiences, which subsequently elicit favorable behavioral intentions. Practical implications The findings suggest the need for the hotel industry to adopt a content marketing paradigm that leverages various dimensions of the experience economy to provide customers with valuable and relevant experiences. The industry must also pay greater attention to its use of branding, signage and promotional messaging to encourage customers to interpret their experiences through the lens of these dimensions. Originality/value The study expands a seminal construct from the field of services marketing in the context of the accommodations industry. The Accommodations Experiencescape is offered as a tool for strategic experience design. The study also offers a model of experiential consumption that explains customers’ experiences with accommodations providers.

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“…Hence, in this study, the socio-urbanistic phenomena of these three cities are going to be used as indicators in order to measure the impact of this new P2P tourism model. There are several studies in the scientific literature that analyse this phenomenon from a purely tourist perspective [26,30,32], from a more economic approach [35,38,50], oriented to the social level at the statistical level [33,51], aimed at the point of view of management [29,48], or even incorporating certain spatial analyses [52,53]. Nevertheless, there is hardly a comparative analysis of the impact in different cities, evaluating at a spatial level the relationship between the tourist phenomenon and the socio-urban evolution of its urban areas.…”

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Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies

García-Ayllón

2018

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Globalization and the development of the so-called "collaborative economies" has coincided with an important transformation of mass tourism in the last decades. This phenomenon has been accentuated enormously in many European cities in recent years, generating a new P2P tourist model. The situation is having a strong social impact on the urban transformation of cities, and its characteristics are closely related to real estate speculative movements. In this sense, the analysis of urban transformation can offer interesting conclusions about the sustainability of these new tourist models in large touristic cities. In this article, we will analyse the effect associated with of so-called phenomena of "tourist flats" from the Airbnb portal in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Palma de Mallorca. Through the use of GIS indicators and geostatistic analysis of spatial correlation, the current incidence of this phenomenon in these cities, and possible future scenarios of maintaining the current trend, will be evaluated and discussed. The results obtained show worrying indicators in relation to the economic and social sustainability of the current urban-tourist model created in the city which are linked to gentrification processes.

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Airbnb: Exciting innovation or passing fad?

Cited by 175 publications

References 15 publications

Regulating Airbnb: how cities deal with perceived negative externalities of short-term rentals

Regulating Airbnb: how cities deal with perceived negative externalities of short-term rentals

The accommodation experiencescape: a comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb

Urban Transformations as an Indicator of Unsustainability in the P2P Mass Tourism Phenomenon: The Airbnb Case in Spain through Three Case Studies

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