Be a “Superhost”: The importance of badge systems for peer-to-peer rental accommodations

Liang, Sai; Schuckert, Markus; Law, Rob; Chen, Chih Chien

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2017.01.007

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“…It seems that the older Airbnb listings tend to charge more partly because the lodging places that have been listed through Airbnb with a longer period are more experienced, and those hosts are aware of why their guests are more likely to trust previous experiences in terms of safety and service quality. In Figure 5a, significant negative correlations between number of reviews and price exist primarily in west Metro Nashville (districts 18,[20][21][22][23][24][25]34). The negative correlations indicate that the more reviews the listing has, the lower the price, which is inconsistent with previous studies [11].…”

Section: Gwr Estimationmentioning

confidence: 70%

“…Their findings concluded that Airbnb listing's reputation or guests' trust in Airbnb listing can be affected by "Superhost" status [20], geolocated Airbnb rental images [21], Airbnb hosts' personal photos [22], perceived authenticity, electronic word-of-mouth, price sensitivity [23], and/or perceived brand personality [24]. Several studies have investigated how customers' experience and service quality impacted Airbnb's business reputation [25][26][27][28][29] that paved the way for the success of Airbnb.…”

Section: Airbnbmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Key Factors Affecting the Price of Airbnb Listings: A Geographically Weighted Approach

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Airbnb has been increasingly gaining popularity since 2008 due to its low prices and direct interactions with the local community. This paper employed a general linear model (GLM) and a geographically weighted regression (GWR) model to identify the key factors affecting Airbnb listing prices using data sets of 794 samples of Airbnb listings of business units in Metro Nashville, Tennessee. The results showed that the GWR model performs better than the GLM in terms of accuracy and affected variable selections. Statistically significant differences varied across regions in Metro Nashville. The coefficients illustrate a decreasing trend while there is an increase in the distance from the listed units to the convention center, which indicates that Airbnb listing prices are more sensitive to the distance from the convention center in the central area than in other areas. These findings can also provide implications for stakeholders such as Airbnb hosts to gain a better understanding of the market situation and formulate a suitable pricing strategy.

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Key Factors Affecting the Price of Airbnb Listings: A Geographically Weighted Approach

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“…It is stated that belongingness and uniqueness are the essences of Airbnb concepts (Liu & Mattila, 2017). On the Airbnb platform, it is argued that being a Superhost means more reviews, higher ratings, and the higher willingness to spend more from the customers (Liang, Schuckert, Law, & Chen, 2017). It is also interesting to note that, images uploaded to the Airbnb by the hosts, including the interior decoration of the property (Rahimi, Liu, & Andris, 2016), hosts' personal photos (Ert, Fleischer, & Magen, 2016) and even facial expression of the hosts (Fagerstrøm, Pawar, Sigurdsson, Foxall, & Yani-de Soriano, 2017), play an important role in determining consumers' the booking behaviors on Airbnb.…”

Section: Airbnb: An Emerging Platform Of Sharing Economy Based Accommmentioning

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Exploring the Booking Determinants of the Airbnb Properties: An Example of the Listings of London

Qiu

Fan

Liu

2017

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors which influence the probability of an Airbnb property being booked using the properties in London as an example. A binomial logistic model is estimated by sequential Bayesian updating due to the large volume of the data. The results show that, in spite of the market factors revealing great influence, the attributes of the properties play a more important role in influencing the booking probability of the properties. These research findings are potentially beneficial to both the Airbnb practitioners and the industrial organizers.

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“…The considerable achievement of the Airbnb's locations for example, is largely a product of new business models afforded by a better visualized Geosystem (Voda & Montes, 2018). Once validated by excellent ratings, the Geosystem's virtual image might attract more visitors, transforming the locals into superhosts, thereby increasing their revenue (Wang & Nicolau, 2017;Liang et al, 2017;Gunter, 2018). Furthermore, the Airbnb phenomenon proved the functionality of local Geosystems virtual imagery, sustained and validated, if genuine, by visitors` reviews (Guttentag & Smith, 2017;Cheng & Jin, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Geomedia`s Role in the Geosystem Development: Dracula`s Spatial Imaginaries in Romania

Voda¹,

Graves²,

Berariu³

2019

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Geomedia techniques are easily acquired, freely available and easy to learn. Most of the modern mobile phones possess digital camera and have incorporated Global Positioning System. Various smartphone applications can be downloaded and used to find, create and control the virtual representations of places, emphasizing humans' central position in the Geosystem. The focus of this research is an assessment of the power of Geomedia techniques as a tool in the identification, construction and development of functional Geosystems. Methodologically, our research in Romania used the grounded theory with data collection based on smartphone apps, web GIS and geospatial datasets from Google Earth, combined with the Geomedia analytic hierarchy (GAH) and the multicriteria decision making (MDM) processor for the geosystems` effectiveness evaluation. We demonstrate how the growing popularity of Geomedia tools can be used to efficiently sustain development in an organized way, at both the national and community levels.

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Be a “Superhost”: The importance of badge systems for peer-to-peer rental accommodations

Cited by 263 publications

References 62 publications

Key Factors Affecting the Price of Airbnb Listings: A Geographically Weighted Approach

Key Factors Affecting the Price of Airbnb Listings: A Geographically Weighted Approach

Exploring the Booking Determinants of the Airbnb Properties: An Example of the Listings of London

Geomedia`s Role in the Geosystem Development: Dracula`s Spatial Imaginaries in Romania

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