Airbnb: the future of networked hospitality businesses

By Jeroen Oskam, A. Boswijk. 2016

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Purpose Although networked hospitality businesses as Airbnb are a recent phenomenon, a rapid growth has made them a serious competitor for the hospitality industry with important consequences for tourism and for tourist destinations. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the nature of the phenomenon, its potential further development in the next five years and the impact this developments will have on tourism, on hotels and on city destinations. Design/methodology/approach A literature study, combined with scenario workshops and a Delphi panel, were used to map current trends and uncertainties. With this input, future scenarios were elaborated using the Global Business Network (“scenario cross”) method. Findings Network platforms as Airbnb are often classified under something called the “Sharing Economy”, a denomination that obscures their true nature. Airbnb is a challenging innovation to which traditional hospitality will have to respond. Its impact has at the same time led to a call for regulatory po...

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Consumer adoption of the Uber mobile application: Insights from diffusion of innovation theory and technology acceptance model (2018, background): “…is developing, most recent studies have concentrated on the business or governmental perspective, such as impact of Airbnb on the tourism industry (Oskam & Boswijk, 2016), local regulations of Uber (Rauch & Schleicher, 2015), how to overcome regulations as a barrier (Cannon & Summers, 2014),…”
Adding evidence to the debate: Quantifying Airbnb's disruptive impact on ten key hotel markets (2019, background): “Notably, Oskam and Boswijk (2016) have argued that classifying a network platform such as Airbnb under the denomination of the sharing economy obscures its true nature as a disruptive innovation with the potential to transform”
Determinants of Airbnb demand in Vienna and their implications for the traditional accommodation industry (2018, background): “Also, by occupying commercial housing and promoting gentrification, Airbnb accommodations decrease opportunity in the market—for Airbnb hosts and residents—and Gunter and Önder 275 finally may result in higher socioeconomic inequalities between neighborhoods (Oskam and Boswijk, 2016).”
Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Customers become part of the value creation (Oskam and Boswijk 2016).”