The eruption of Airbnb in tourist cities: Comparing spatial patterns of hotels and peer-to-peer accommodation in Barcelona

By Javier Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos García-Palomares, Gustavo Romanillos, M. Salas-Olmedo. 2016

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In recent years, what has become known as collaborative consumption has undergone rapid expansion through peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms. In the field of tourism, a particularly notable example is that of Airbnb. This article analyses the spatial patterns of Airbnb in Barcelona and compares them with hotels and sightseeing spots. New sources of data, such as Airbnb listings and geolocated photographs are used. Analysis of bivariate spatial autocorrelation reveals a close spatial relationship between Airbnb and hotels, with a marked centre-periphery pattern, although Airbnb predominates around the city's main hotel axis and hotels predominate in some peripheral areas of the city. Another interesting finding is that Airbnb capitalises more on the advantages of proximity to the city's main tourist attractions than does the hotel sector. Multiple regression analysis shows that the factors explaining location are also different for hotels and Airbnb. Finally, it was possible to detect those parts of the city that have seen the greatest increase in pressure from tourism related to Airbnb's recent expansion.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

Overtourism and online short-term rental platforms in Italian cities (2020, background): “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 near-central areas than hotels and traditional accommodation facilities (Gutiérrez et al., 2017; Celata, 2017; Gyòdi, 2017).”
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts (2021, background): “…consumption’ is defined as an approach that is applied at the levels of business-to-consumer, consumer-toconsumer and business-to-business transactions and outperforms traditional services especially when applied in the digital domain (Botsman, 2013; Gutiérrez et al., 2017; Park, Armstrong, 2017).”
Sharing versus collaborative economy: how to align ICT developments and the SDGs in tourism? (2019, background): “Guti errez et al. (2017) confirm that AirBnB offers are significant in terms of bed numbers and spatially close to hotels (see also Ram & Hall, 2018).”
What is happening in Paris? Airbnb, hotels, and the Parisian market: A case study (2019, background): “Guttentag (2015), for instance, discussed Airbnb from a disruptive innovation theory perspective.”
On the determinants of Airbnb location and its spatial distribution (2019, methodology): “P2P location certainly depends on the preexistence of residential areas near tourism destinations (e.g. cities, see Gutiérrez et al., 2017) or the presence of second homes in tourism destinations (e.g. sun and beach).”