Sharing Economy in Travel and Tourism: The Case of Home-Swapping in Italy

Forno, Francesca; Garibaldi, Roberta

doi:10.1080/1528008x.2015.1013409

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“…Because the interpersonal exchange discourse [45] is pervasive, users identified as being "the friend" type perceive Airbnb as an alternative to CouchSurfing, and as such marketmediation does not alter the community feeling. Discourses of sustainability and anti-consumerism [22] might also be underlying their preference for alternative accommodation practices such as Airbnb.…”

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The Impact of Technology-Mediated Consumption on Identity: The case of Airbnb

Festila¹,

Müller²

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Impact of Technology-Mediated Consumption on Identity: The case of Airbnb

Festila¹,

Müller²

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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“…The authors, however, also found that the different levels of cultural capital and the distinctions they produce matter and create contradictions xl . An ethnographic study of Italian home-swappers (Forno & Garibaldi, 2015) also found both social and utilitarian motives. Sustainability, enjoyment of the activity, and economic gain were the key motivations found among users of a platform in Finland (Hamari, et al, 2015).…”

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“…(Forno & Garibaldi, 2015)  Journal Article The authors analyse and discuss the socioeconomic profiles, motivations, and lifestyles of Italian home-swappers. This alternative form of tourism requires trust, open-mindedness, inventiveness, enthusiasm, and flexibility.…”

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The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy'

2016

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Digital platforms generally placed under the 'sharing economy' and various other labels match different groups of users and providers and enable the increase in scale and speed for traditional transactions such as selling, renting, lending, labour trade, and provision of services. In many cases, these platform-mediated activities involve peer-topeer or peer-to-business transactions that occur in a regulatory vacuum. Since 2014, the phenomenal growth of a few large commercial 'sharing' platforms, the increasing number of economic sectors affected, and the conflicting interests among the stakeholders involved have made the 'sharing economy' a domain of conflictual rhetoric and public controversies, legal disputes, and even violent protests. The various expressions used to refer to 'sharing' platforms, by now appropriated by practitioners and stakeholders, are 'floating signifiers' for all sorts of different activities, in what can be called the rhetorical politics of platformisation. Terms and concepts are used in such confused and confusing ways that it is at times difficult to ascertain whether advocates, opponents, regulators, and policy makers are discussing the same phenomenon. There is a closed self-reproducing loop between conceptual ambiguity, rhetorical controversies, and lack of sound measurement and empirical evidence. This loop, in turn, limits the space for a rational debate of alternative policy options and contributes to the fragmented regulatory approaches which currently address the 'sharing economy'. This theoretically-inspired and empirically-informed critical essay (i) unpacks the 'sharing economy' rhetoric, (ii) clears the field of semantic and conceptual ambiguity by providing a heuristicallyuseful and empirically-grounded typology, (iii) maps the controversies against available empirical evidence on the functioning and on the impacts of 'sharing' platforms, (iv) reviews the debate and the literature which focuses on regulatory and policy issues, and (v) discusses all these aspects in terms of their policy implications, and of future European research on this topic. It does so in a unique way, because of the extensive evidence base used and the inter-disciplinary approach it takes in which theoretical and empirical economics, sociology, anthropology, regulatory and legal studies, and rhetorical analysis converge. The evidence comprises: a) 120 media items (newspapers and magazine articles; blogs especially by 'sharing economy' advocacy groups and organisations; industry briefs etc.); b) in-depth analysis of a purposive sample of 70 platforms (website, blog, public relations and self-reports, etc.); c) 140 sources, consisting of scientific items (115) and broadly defined reports (25), selected using a formalised protocol and systematically reviewed; c) about 60 reports released by interested parties (industrial associations, platforms own reports and public relation materials); d) 70 indirectly relevant scientific contributions and policy reports.

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“…Another cluster of research falls on economic valuation of P2PA. Forno and Garibaldi () discussed the socio‐economic characteristics, motivations, and lifestyle choices of Italian home swappers. The study revealed that P2PA is an alternative form of tourism that requires trust, open‐mindedness, inventiveness, enthusiasm, and flexibility (Forno & Garibaldi, ).…”

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“…Forno and Garibaldi () discussed the socio‐economic characteristics, motivations, and lifestyle choices of Italian home swappers. The study revealed that P2PA is an alternative form of tourism that requires trust, open‐mindedness, inventiveness, enthusiasm, and flexibility (Forno & Garibaldi, ). Jefferson‐Jones () discussed the relationship between home value and the provision of P2PA services and found that P2PA involvement brought some benefits for property owners; however, it was also found to localize conflict between the sharing economy and real‐life economic regulations (Jefferson‐Jones, ).…”

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The value of P2PA to travelers: Evidence from the Hong Kong market

Lau

Chui

Lin

et al. 2019

Journal of Tourism Research

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We investigated potential peer‐to‐peer accommodation (P2PA) rental customers with an online survey with 254 Hong Kong residents. The results indicated a different user spectrum covering relatively young, unmarried people in civilian posts, with high levels of education and low levels of income. Prospects preferred to use considered unsafe P2PA in safe destinations. We examined the factors affecting the respondents' willingness to use P2PA rentals with multifactor binary logistic regression analysis. We developed a model on how P2PA, destination, and personal attributes affect decision making to provide a useful point of reference for future researchers and industry practitioners.

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Sharing Economy in Travel and Tourism: The Case of Home-Swapping in Italy

Cited by 126 publications

References 11 publications

The Impact of Technology-Mediated Consumption on Identity: The case of Airbnb

The Impact of Technology-Mediated Consumption on Identity: The case of Airbnb

The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the 'Sharing Economy'

The value of P2PA to travelers: Evidence from the Hong Kong market

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