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ACCOMMODATION THROUGH ONLINE PLATFORMS DURING COVID-19: A STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL REJECTION ATTITUDES
Online platforms act as tourist accommodation intermediaries and have generated negative societal attitudes. This study, involving fieldwork in Spain in May 2020 (600 surveys), analyses a new element of social rejection of tourist housing activity. In the context of the COVID-19 health crisis, the fear of contagious diseases transmitted by tourists is analysed. The aim is to determine, based on the perception of various stakeholders involved in tourist activity, whether there is a rejection of tourists due to the fear of contagious diseases. Furthermore, the magnitude of this reason for rejection is analysed compared to other rejection factors associated with tourist accommodation activity. In this way, the magnitude of the fear of disease transmission when the pandemic was still active will be determined. The data have been analysed using a stakeholder approach and applied using a methodology based on the Borda count, which creates a ranking that reflects stakeholder perceptions of the most intense impacts. It has been found that the stakeholders with the greatest economic dependence on tourist accommodation - shopkeepers and homeowners - anticipate the greatest rejection. These groups are also those who report a greater fear of contagion. This information may be useful in future situations of health uncertainty for regulatory or commercial purposes.
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Accommodation Through Online Platforms During COVID-19: A Study of Behavioral Rejection Attitudes
Online platforms act as tourist accommodation intermediaries and have generated negative societal attitudes. This study, involving fieldwork in Spain in May 2020 (600 surveys), analyzes a new element of social rejection of tourist housing activity. In the context of the COVID-19 health
crisis, the fear of contagious diseases transmitted by tourists is analyzed. The aim is to determine, based on the perception of various stakeholders involved in tourist activity, whether there is a rejection of tourists due to the fear of contagious diseases. Furthermore, the magnitude of
this reason for rejection is analyzed compared to other rejection factors associated with tourist accommodation activity. In this way, the magnitude of the fear of disease transmission when the pandemic was still active will be determined. The data have been analyzed using a stakeholder approach
and applied using a methodology based on the Borda count, which creates a ranking that reflects stakeholder perceptions of the most intense impacts. It has been found that the stakeholders with the greatest economic dependence on tourist accommodation-shopkeepers and homeowners-anticipate
the greatest rejection. These groups are also those who report a greater fear of contagion. This information may be useful in future situations of health uncertainty for regulatory or commercial purposes.
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Commodifying Lisbon: A Study on the Spatial Concentration of Short-Term Rentals
This article explores the relationship between the spatial concentration of short-term rentals in Lisbon’s historic center and the phenomena of uneven development and tourism gentrification. By providing quantitative and qualitative evidence of the uneven geographic distribution of tourist apartments within the municipality of Lisbon, it contributes to the study of the new processes of neoliberal urbanization in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe. It argues that the great share of whole-home rentals and the expansion of the short-term rental market over the housing stock are symptoms of the commodification of housing in the neoliberal city. Due to the loss of consumption capacity by the Portuguese society amid crisis and austerity, real estate developers target external markets and local households must compete for access to a limited housing stock with tourists and other temporary city users. The subsequent global rent gap stimulates the proliferation of vacation rentals at the expense of the supply of residential housing, fueling property prices and jeopardizing housing affordability. With Portugal being a peripheral member of the EU and the Eurozone, the vulnerability of local households to the impacts of tourism gentrification is aggravated by the remarkable income gap with their counterparts of the core.
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Effects of Vacation Rental Websites on the Concentration of Tourists—Potential Environmental Impacts. An Application to the Balearic Islands in Spain
The concentration of tourists at certain times of the year can damage sensitive environments. The use of peer-to-peer vacation rental websites has increased greatly during the last decade. This system could either reduce seasonality in touristic destinations where the tourist activity takes place throughout the year at a lower price or on the contrary, it could increase the number of visitors at certain times of the year even more. This paper intends to analyze the effect that these platforms have on tourism seasonality in order to calculate if they help reduce or increase the pressure on the destinations. To do so, the Gini Index has been applied to one of the main touristic spots in Europe, the Balearic Islands in Spain. The conclusion is that this type of accommodation has aggravated the problem, generating a greater concentration of tourists and a higher pressure on the resources of the islands.
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Impact of the Destination Weather Conditions on Decision and Complaint Behavior of Guests Who Booked Vacation Rentals
Climate and weather conditions at a destination influence the decision regarding what season and which location tourists might travel to. Assuming that the holiday experiences and satisfaction during their stay are influenced by weather and climate as well, this study investigates the question: does bad weather lead to a higher complaint rate among guests who booked vacation rentals? To answer this question, the complaint behavior and the weather parameters temperature, precipitation, wind speed and humidity are examined. The correlations between weather and complaining behavior are proven using the four-field coefficient. The chi-square four-field test is used to subsequently test independence. As a result, a correlation between the weather parameters and complaints cannot be proven based on the applied methods and used data. The four-field coefficient cannot confirm a correlation, as it is close to zero for all four weather parameters. For further investigations, more complaint data are required to obtain more significant results.
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Experimental study of occupants' situational awareness during a fire by sounding of wireless, interconnected alarm smoke detectors at a small‐scale hostel that was originally a single‐family house
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for small‐scale hostels, such as vacation rentals, known as “minpaku” in Japanese, which were originally single‐family houses. To convert these buildings for use as accommodation facilities, improvements must be made to fire evacuation safety measures. An effective and reasonable measure for this improvement is the installation of wireless, interconnected alarm smoke detectors. We conducted experiments to examine how sleeping guests recognize these alarms when they are activated. Eleven participants experienced the alarm sounding while sleeping at night and while awake during the daytime at a wooden cottage. They were exposed to three different sounding patterns. In the sleeping experiment, 9 of 11 participants were woken up by alarms sounding in other rooms, while the remaining two were woken up by alarms in their own rooms. However, those two participants had difficulty understanding the meaning of the voice alarm clearly. The voice stated, “Other detector was activated,” indicating a fire in another room and urging evacuation, even though there was no smoke in their room. Comprehension of the alarm system is essential for guests to understand its intentions accurately and make proper decisions regarding evacuation. Wireless, interconnected alarm smoke detectors are increasingly utilized in vacation rentals, converted from single‐family houses known in Japanese as “minpaku.” The participants in the present study did not have prior knowledge of interconnected alarm smoke detectors, and some of them were not able to understand the meaning of the alarm voice's message clearly. In order for the guests to understand the content correctly, it is necessary for the guests to be informed and understand the mechanism of the alarm smoke detector.
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The Impact of Airbnb on Long-Term Rental Housing: The Case of Ljubljana
Airbnb has become a fixture in the development of global cities, especially influencing their residential characteristics. The company derives from the concept of the sharing economy, the essence of which is the exchange of services or goods between individuals that set the rules of operation without generating profits, but together generating more revenue. It insists that it does not represent direct competition to other urban accommodation services and that it merely seeks to expand the tourism market. Nonetheless, this article proceeds from the assumption that Airbnb is influencing and transforming the housing market of the cities it operates in. It focuses on Ljubljana, which until 2019 had a record number of international arrivals and overnight stays. The findings confirm that short-term Airbnb rentals affect the long-term rental market in Ljubljana. They also show that rentals through Airbnb involve an extremely high share of the grey economy.
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The Influence of Vacation Home Rentals on Neighborhood Crime and Disorder
This study examines the association between vacation home rentals (VHR) and residential burglary, disturbances, and substance crimes from social disorganization and routine activity perspectives. Airbnb and crime data for 2018 in Austin, Texas, were analyzed spatially and with multivariate count regression models. Census block groups were used as the unit of analysis (N = 602). Other variables considered include socio-demographic variables, a spatial lag, and bar and nightclub locations. Negative binomial regression analyses revealed VHR properties to be significantly and negatively associated with residential burglary, substance crimes, and disturbances when the rental was the entire structure; however, VHR properties were associated with all crime types in a significant and positive manner when the rental was only for an individual room in the property. This is the second study to find negative associations between entire structure VHRs and crime, though this study varies from others in several aspects. VHRs do not appear to contribute to crime in all circumstances, and listing type matters. However, this is a newer research topic and future studies would benefit from using longitudinal methods, addressing the temporal order of VHR properties and crime in neighborhoods, as well as considering property management characteristics.
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Vacation rentals in San Francisco, USA: a positive or negative disruption?
Purpose
Vacation rentals (VRs) are growing in popularity and have disrupted the lodging industry. But they are also controversial because they can literally disrupt quiet residential neighborhoods. There is little research on users of VRs.
Design/methodology/approach
An online survey of 10,000 festival attendees in San Francisco determined if they stayed in VR or commercial lodging and their spending. A second survey of 402 respondents who stayed in a VR asked about their motivations for renting a VR and their evaluation of the experience.
Findings
Results showed users of VRs were motivated by low cost, a convenient location and the nature of the neighborhood. VR user groups were more likely to rent high-end properties, than commercial users. But on a per-person per-day basis, VR users spent $183 on lodging, compared with $264 spent by those opting for a CL. Over half of the respondents stated that the availability of VRs increased the likelihood of them attending the event.
Practical implications
Results suggest that VRs help cover housing costs of VR owners and provide a desired, unique and low-priced lodging opportunity, which can encourage attendance at events. But VRs have both positive and negative disruptive impacts, and more regulation is coming in high-profile urban tourist destinations to mitigate negative effects.
Originality/value
This study consists of original research into VRs, which is a rapidly evolving component of hospitality industry.
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