Barcelona, Housing Rent Bubble in a Tourist City. Social Responses and Local Policies

Blanco-Romero, Asunción; Blázquez-Salom, Macià; Cànoves, Gemma

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“…Remedial actions focused on addressing unsuitable accommodation provision that was untenable in terms of the quality. The Special Urban Plan for Tourist Accommodation (PEUAT) limited the number of licenses and instigated illegal offerings (Barcelona City Council, 2018a, 2018b; Blanco‐Romero, Blázquez‐Salom, & Cànoves, 2018). PEUAT addressed imbalances in resource use and included the detection of illegal accommodation, regulatory measures, administrative cooperation, and sanctions.…”

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The dark side of the sharing economy: Balancing value co‐creation and value co‐destruction

Buhalis

Andreu

Gnoth

2020

Psychology and Marketing

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The sharing economy disrupts the marketplace and brings both benefits and disadvantages into service ecosystems. We discuss principles of the S-D logic and transformative service research and explore the processes of value co-creation and co-destruction of well-being within the ecosystem of the accommodation sharing economy. Following a brief period of euphoria, the dark side of the sharing economy emerges, defined as the socially, environmentally, or economically undesirable effects introduced by the sharing economy. Airbnb introduced new realities for visitors, neighborhoods, the accommodation industry, and city councils, whereby some stakeholders are frequently found to maximize their own value at the expense of others. Value co-destruction prevails often due to uncontrolled and rapid expansion. We seek to promote a more balanced process, and the optimization of value co-creation, while seeking to prevent value co-destruction. Using a literature review, netnography, and a case study, we investigate co-creation and co-destruction, as expressed by different stakeholders, and focus on the socio-psychological implications in the use of sharing platforms that affect the well-being of individuals and community. A conceptual framework is proposed to manage future research addressing well-being, value co-creation and co-destruction in complex ecosystem service networks.

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confidence: 99%

The dark side of the sharing economy: Balancing value co‐creation and value co‐destruction

Buhalis

Andreu

Gnoth

2020

Psychology and Marketing

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“…In their conceptual contribution, Lerario and Di Turi [60] reiterate this as they emphasize the importance of active urban planning and the design of the built environment to reduce the potentially negative effects of tourism and suggest several mitigation practices for doing so. Blanco-Romero, Blázquez-Salom, and Cànoves [61] also touch upon this in their contribution which highlight the ways in which the commodification and gentrification of the city of Barcelona and insufficient regulatory controls with regard to tourism have led to a rise in social housing prices, pitting citizens against tourism. Rose and Li [62] focus on urban tourism in an Indian context and highlight that the cities of Puri and Varanasi are relatively positive towards the sector.…”

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The Discourse on Sustainable Urban Tourism: The Need for Discussing More Than Overtourism

Aall

Koens

2019

Sustainability

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The journal Sustainability has previously published special issues on sustainable tourism and on sustainable cities (both in 2014). This special issue presents recent insights from combining the two research topics. There is some convergence with respect to core challenges that sustainable urban tourism is facing. Firstly, relating to social sustainable development, there is the tension between the quality of life for residents in different ways and the development of cities to benefit the tourism industry. Secondly, relating to environmental sustainable development, there is the tension between residents and their desire for good local environmental standards and visiting tourists that create a number of over-tourism related local environmental problems. Thirdly, there are the challenges that so far have received less attention, but obviously are expected to become crucial in the years to come: The double climate change provides risks to cities from a changing climate and from more ambitious climate policies to come.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4228 2 of 12 what sustainable urban tourism can entail. In doing so, a broad approach to sustainability has been applied by including both the environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable development.The journal Sustainability has previously published two special issues of relevance in this context-on sustainable tourism [10] and on sustainable cities [11]. This special issue tries to develop insights from these two previous special issues further and combines the perspectives already touched upon in the two previous special issues. Urbanisation and Urban Tourism are IncreasingAccording to EU statistics, urban areas accounted for almost two thirds of the total number of tourist nights spent in EU member states in 2014. Tourism statistics show an increase in urban tourism and higher occupancy rates in urban areas compared to suburban and rural areas [12]. This can be explained by at least three driving factors. Firstly, by a general global increase in mobility; i.e., a combination of an increase in mobility demand from both the private and public consumers, and an increase in mobility supply by means of an increased mobility capacity of all means of transportation, in particular aviation [13]. Secondly, an increasing share of the world's population live in urban settlements, and these figures are expected to increase further. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) presents on a regular basis estimates on urbanisation prospects, with the latest being published in 2018. According to DESA, 55 % of the world's population are residing in urban areas in 2018, which can be compared with a corresponding figure of 30 % in 1950 and an expectancy of 68 % in 2050. According to DESA, this development is mainly driven by population increases and by the upward shift in the percentage living in urban areas [14]. Thirdly, business trips, which are included in the above cited statistics, usually take place in urban areas [15]. This segment of tourism ha...

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“…Nonetheless, it implicates harsh consequences for urban development, such as domestication and controlling of public spaces (Armas Díaz, 2016, p. 424). From an economic point of view, an increasing Boletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, 83, 2813, 1-47 importance of peer-to-peer market places in the field of holiday homes is observed (Martín Pérez, 2015, p. 22), which is expected to contribute to a shortage of affordable housing in urban areas (Blanco Romero et al, 2018;Lee, 2016;Yrigoy, 2016). Touristification strategies can be observed during the last decades, which are related to the construction of a new industrial port in Tenerife's south and leaves land in Santa Cruz' harbour for tertiary uses (García Herrera & Sabaté Bel, 2009, p. 597).…”

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From megaprojects to tourism gentrification? The case of Santa Cruz Verde 2030 (Canary Islands, Spain)

Hübscher

2019

BAGE

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The inner-city oil refinery in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, has been shaping the city’s urbanism as an employer, but also as a polluter and a physical barrier for more than 80 years. The megaproject Santa Cruz Verde 2030 aims at transforming this area into a mixed-use urban quarter. Based on a mixed methods approach, this paper analyses the impacts of the megaproject by means of document, spatial and statistical analyses. The project is estimated to increase the city’s green areas by 39 % and the number of hotel beds by 70 %, provoking a strong touristifaction. Santa Cruz Verde 2030 stands for a new type of megaprojects, offering a variety of uses and sustainability wordings. Nevertheless, the impacts might reconfigure the city’s urbanism as a whole, shifting centralities to its southwest. On a neighbourhood level, spillover effects are expected to have diverging consequences. While in the Los Llanos neighbourhood gentrification and tourism are fostered, in Buenos Aires the megaproject implies the opportunity to integrate this currently segregated quarter into the city. Against this background, the paper outlines the necessity of transparent planning and monitoring processes, in order to ensure the sustainability of this new urban quarter.

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Barcelona, Housing Rent Bubble in a Tourist City. Social Responses and Local Policies

Cited by 97 publications

References 21 publications

The dark side of the sharing economy: Balancing value co‐creation and value co‐destruction

The dark side of the sharing economy: Balancing value co‐creation and value co‐destruction

The Discourse on Sustainable Urban Tourism: The Need for Discussing More Than Overtourism

From megaprojects to tourism gentrification? The case of Santa Cruz Verde 2030 (Canary Islands, Spain)

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