The Tourist Model in the Collaborative Economy: A Modern Approach

Abstract

Tourism is a complex and transversal phenomenon of huge social-economic importance that in the last few years has entered the phase of globalization and internationalisation. Furthermore, by virtue of the considerable reinforcement of means of communication, the diffusion of tourism has undergone an unprecedented acceleration and therefore the means of sourcing of information and opportunities of consumption have become numerous. In this direction, distributed hospitality needs investigated, considering that, at the current status, it is not fully understood in terms of inborn potentials by the local policy makers. In general, distributed hospitality represents a form of hospitality that is based on relations of a collaborative nature, especially suitable to generate virtual requalification processes on the territory of residential assets, of repositioning of the tourist destination, as well as reinforcing the attractiveness of the area. Moreover, even though different kinds of inter-company relations exist, the aggregation phenomenon appears to be the answer to the cognitive requirements and the means to activate a modern differential process on the market. The theme of sustainability of tourism development will therefore be faced through the identification of current forms of experience of diffused hotels that exist on an Italian level; subsequently, changing from some morphological indicators deducted by the Network Analysis, a model was proposed in the attempt to define the governance model of diffused hotels. So, the research question is the following: can the formula of distributed hospitality lead to enhancement of a tourist destination with a view to sustainability?

Differences in the economic performance of hotel-based and residential tourist destinations measured by their retail activity. Evidence from Spain

“…In general, from a statistical viewpoint the difficulties in defining the universe for the study, especially in the case of the residential destinations, where a large part of the population and accommodation supply is not registered or regulated, limit the capacity to estimate the economic impact of tourism in the destinations. Moreover, the increase in Internet use and the collaborative economy facilitate the direct marketing of accommodation by second-home owners which also distorts the measurement of official tourism statistics (see Russo, Lombardi & Mangiagli, 2013). Therefore, given these difficulties, it is not unreasonable to observe the results found in this paper which do not reveal large differences between the two models.…”

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“…Terminology ad is an Italian phenomenon (Confalonieri, 2011) and a relatively new research topic (Presenza, Yucelen, & Camillo, 2016;Russo, Lombardi, & Mangiagli, 2013). Thus, the amount of research is rather limited, particularly that of a quantitative nature.…”

“…In the existing literature, there are several different translations of 'ad:' 'diffuse hotels' (Županović, 2015), 'diffused hotels' (Ðurkin & Kolarić, 2016;Dragicevic, Tomasevic, Stanovic, & Avejic, 2016;Russo et al, 2013), 'scattered hotels' (Scarcelli, 2017;Pollice, 2016;Fumo & Feltria, 2012) and 'widespread hotels' (Monge, Cattaneo, & Scillia, 2015). The majority of authors use the original Italian word: 'ad' (Ideass, n.d.;Verges Palazon, 2016;De Montis, Serra, Ledda, & Ganciu, 2014;Valone & Veglio, 2013;Dropulić, Krajnović & Ružić, 2008).…”

Multi-polar trajectories of tourism development within Russian Arctic

“…Available assessments are based on official data derived from the state statistical data. However, current statistics cannot catch up with rapid changes of the local communities, a widespread phenomenon of "informal economy", and an increasing rate of "sharing economy" [12,13]. Statistics usually count only those accommodation facilities that have 10 or more beds; as a result, the role of wide-spreading small-size guesthouses, holyday homes and apartments in the tourism development remains underestimated.…”