Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

Performing “home” in the sharing economies of tourism: the Airbnb experience in Sofia, Bulgaria

“…They include socializing and eating together, commuting, taking a shower, walking around in pyjamas, relaxing on the couch, and sleeping, amongst others. This suggests that contemporary tourism (and society more broadly) increasingly relies on affective capacities and practices marking out people's private spheres (Veijola et al 2014). Having strangers under the same roof also gave my hosts a different lived experience of home, which positioned them differently in relation to their home.…”

Advancements in technology and digital media in tourism

“…The last decade has seen an overwhelming rise of new multinationals such as Airbnb and Uber now outsising many traditional conglomerates (Gerdeman, 2018; Stone, 2017). Often referred to as disruptive innovation and advancements (Guttentag, 2013; Veijola et al, 2014), P2P democratisation, however, also mobilises an understanding of these new multinationals as potentially problematic with sparsely regulated, technological plutocracy (Lee, 2016).…”

“…Indeed, within the complex assemblages of the sharing economy, the lived experiences of such disruption bring both opportunity and impact. Local entrepreneurship, gentrification and economic gain (Dogru et al, 2020; Mermet, 2017) become intertwined with challenges of temporary rental investment, and the associated flows of tourists can negatively impact the social fabric of communities (Cheng et al, 2020; Veijola et al, 2014), leading many places to re-evaluate the capabilities of their host capacities, and criticising the deterioration in the quality of life of local communities as a result of tourism (Dodds and Butler, 2019; Pechlaner, 2020).…”

Unpopular Culture: Ecological Dissonance and Sustainable Futures in Media‐Induced Tourism

“…The cinematic fan/tourist's populist version of the “leisurely people” is inflected and distorted in the cinematic host's populist version of the “wronged people,” who seek to “set the record straight” by claiming the developing technological ecologies (fan visitor resorts and sites) as their own sociocultural properties, not to be trespassed by unruly strangers. Such unruly strangers come in different colors and from different walks of life, but, like the “wronged folk,” are reduced to parasites invading local ecologies, as Soile Veijola et al. explain in their international study of hospitality. And there is more: Michelle Lamont claimed, specifically with regards to working‐class morality, that the cultural dimensions of class consciousness often override the material ones to enable working‐class men to preserve a sense of self‐worth.…”