The airification of cities. Making sense of the impact of peer to peer short term letting on urban functions and economy

Picascia, Stefano; Romano, Antonello; Teobaldi, Michela

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“…Evidence about the spatial effects of accommodation platforms is indeed ambivalent (for a review, see Guttentag, 2019). Short-term rentals, it has been shown, are causing both the overtouristification of already highly touristified city centres (Alizadeh et al, 2018;Arias Sans & Quaglieri Dom ınguez, 2016;Ben ıtez-Aurioles, 2018;Picascia et al, 2017) and the invasion and gentrification of non-touristic neighbourhoods (Cocola-Gant, 2016;Ioannides et al, 2019;Wachsmuth & Weisler, 2018). This apparent ambivalence can easily be solved by assuming that short-term rentals are much more diffused and widespread all over the cities' central and nearcentral areas than hotels and traditional accommodation facilities (Celata, 2017;Guti errez et al, 2017;Gy odi, 2017).…”

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“…The case study cities have been identified based on the number of short-term rentals listed on the accommodation platform Airbnb.com (Picascia et al, 2017). All of these cities have seen a proliferation of initiatives and social movements denouncing the effects of overtourism and short-term rentals, in particular in terms of housing availability for residents or students.…”

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Overtourism and online short-term rental platforms in Italian cities

Celata

Romano

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Although Italian cities have undergone several waves of touristification, concerns about overtourism have only recently become widespread. In the article, we suggest that the diffusion of short-term rental platforms is not merely a concomitant factor, but is crucial to understanding the how and where of contemporary overtourism. To this end we apply a fractal methodology to identify, map and compare those parts of the city that are most affected, and measure the pressure short-term rentals have on city centres as places of residence. By allowing the conversion of residential apartments into tourist accommodation, we argue, short term rentals contribute to the displacement of residents more directly than a generic process of gentrification or touristification. Second, platforms such as Airbnb not only contribute to increasing the accommodation capacity of urban areas, but radically change the morphology of the tourist city. The growing concerns about overtourism are not due to the rising number of tourists per se, but to their increasing penetration into the residential city. We suggest, therefore, that to conceive of overtourism merely as overcrowding is not only inadequate but counterproductive. Even though the depopulation of city centres is difficult to reverse, the coronavirus emergency is an opportunity to plan a different city where tourism coexists with other urban uses and functions.

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Section: The How and Where Of Platform-mediated Overtourismmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Overtourism and online short-term rental platforms in Italian cities

Celata

Romano

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…One example of this type of unregulated activities is provided by the fast growth in Rome of networked hospitality businesses. For example, in 2015 the Airbnb network gained 7.1% of all the houses in Rome's city center, and this number rose to 8% in 2016 (Picascia et al 2017). It is an impressive amount if we consider the small surface of Rome's historical area.…”

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Neoliberal Rome—The Role of Tourism

Gemmiti

2019

Social Sciences

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The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the main characteristics of recent tourism policies in Rome by describing the local modalities through which the neoliberal approach to urban strategies has been implemented. The first section highlights some general features of the city of Rome and its tourism, which are particularly useful for understanding the specificities of neoliberal tourism policies. The paper then proceeds to describe the most clearly defined neoliberal period of the city from 1993 to 2008, when the new Master Plan was drawn up to establish new policies and projects for tourism. The period that followed 2008 was marked by the gradual withdrawal of public action, which on the other hand has left ample freedom to the forces of tourism and globalization.This paper aims at reinforcing the evidence of the role that tourism has played in the development of urban neoliberal policies.The aim is to discuss the characteristics of neoliberal policies in Rome as an outcome of the city's institutional and spatial peculiarities. The paper also aims to explore how the specificity of tourism sector, as one of the most relevant dimensions of urban neoliberal policies, influenced and changed the urban development path.The paper is organized into three parts. First, a description of the local context is given, focussing in particular on the peculiarities of Rome in order to better understand the unfolding of neoliberal forces in the city. The second part will describe the most relevant phase of local neoliberal policies, corresponding to the process of elaboration of the new Master Plan (MP), within which many urban projects related to tourism were considered as the keys to the revitalization of the city through major events, new architectural structures, as well as a creative and cultural offer. The third part analyses the period that followed the approval of the Master Plan, from 2008 up to today, focussing on the progressive retreat of local institutions and on the effects of the neoliberal stage becoming more and more evident.

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“…In addition to the fact that Airbnb is related to the saturation of the carrying capacity of many cities, it has also been responsible for substantially changing the morphology of the destinations where it is present [49]. Likewise, these types of rentals are responsible for the overtourism of urban centers that were already very touristy [14,50,51] and the invasion and gentrification of neighborhoods [21,[52][53][54].…”

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An Evaluation of the Three Pillars of Sustainability in Cities with High Airbnb Presence: A Case Study of the City of Madrid

Álvarez-Herránz

Macedo-Ruíz

2021

Sustainability

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The recent proliferation of private tourist accommodations on what has been known as sharing economy has induced new models on urban tourism and on the use of traditional housing. Urban tourism pressure has caused many transformation processes with important impacts in neighborhoods with high tourist interest, which are shown in the evolution of certain urban sustainability indicators, such as those proposed by the UN-Habitat Agenda for Sustainable Cities in line with the principles of the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities. Due to the above, the objective of this work is to analyze the spatial distribution of Airbnb accommodations, and explore the factors associated with the situation of Airbnb rentals in relation to the indicators of urban sustainability of neighborhoods and variables related to the gentrification processes of neighborhoods in which there is crowding or overtourism, measured through the Global Tourist Stress Index. For this, a first-order spatial autoregressive panel (SAR) data model with fixed effects has been specified, the results of which provide us with information to understand how sustainability indicators in the neighborhoods of the city of Madrid in the time period 2015–2018, they would explain the location and number of Airbnb accommodations found there. Additionally, it allows us to observe the existence of a spillover effect from the central neighborhoods, with a high per capita income, to nearby neighborhoods with lower income due to the level of tourist crowding, which is a contribution to the scarce existing literature.

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The airification of cities. Making sense of the impact of peer to peer short term letting on urban functions and economy

Cited by 34 publications

References 8 publications

Overtourism and online short-term rental platforms in Italian cities

Overtourism and online short-term rental platforms in Italian cities

Neoliberal Rome—The Role of Tourism

An Evaluation of the Three Pillars of Sustainability in Cities with High Airbnb Presence: A Case Study of the City of Madrid

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