The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto

Urban tourism growth, favoured by short term rental platforms like Airbnb, is changing the cities dramatically. All over Europe local governments have been facing unbridled growth of the so-called sharing economy and developed different regulatory approaches: full prohibition; laissez-faire; and di...

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Autores principales:	Pedro Chamusca, José Rio Fernandes, Luís Carvalho, Thiago Mendes
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Asociación Española de Geografía 2019
Materias:	Environmental sciences GE1-350 Geography (General) G1-922
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:48aff6c33e8141cb94ec8713c65b8cb52021-12-03T10:44:04ZThe role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto10.21138/bage.28200212-94262605-3322https://doaj.org/article/48aff6c33e8141cb94ec8713c65b8cb52019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://bage.age-geografia.es/ojs/index.php/bage/article/view/2820https://doaj.org/toc/0212-9426https://doaj.org/toc/2605-3322 Urban tourism growth, favoured by short term rental platforms like Airbnb, is changing the cities dramatically. All over Europe local governments have been facing unbridled growth of the so-called sharing economy and developed different regulatory approaches: full prohibition; laissez-faire; and different sorts of limitations. We take Porto as a case-study, considering the exponential growth of tourism, Airbnb and floating city users over the past decade. We make use of qualitative and quantitative methods and draw on the official AirDNA database to analyse the relation between Airbnb and urban transformation, and the governance context. We conclude that the growth of floating city-users –stimulated by Airbnb– has been the main driver of urban change. The case of Porto –which in many ways illustrates the fast growth of short-term, rental-driven urban tourism in southern Europe– demonstrates that Airbnb’s global corporate narrative around property sharing, micro-entrepreneurship and tourism democratization hardly fits the urban reality of host professionalization, income concentration and growing massification. In this context, besides laissez-faire, urban sustainability concerns call for smarter regulatory approaches associated with more widely shared visions, and clear short, medium and long-term objectives. Pedro ChamuscaJosé Rio FernandesLuís CarvalhoThiago MendesAsociación Española de GeografíaarticleEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350Geography (General)G1-922ENESBoletín de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles, Iss 83 (2019)
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description	Urban tourism growth, favoured by short term rental platforms like Airbnb, is changing the cities dramatically. All over Europe local governments have been facing unbridled growth of the so-called sharing economy and developed different regulatory approaches: full prohibition; laissez-faire; and different sorts of limitations. We take Porto as a case-study, considering the exponential growth of tourism, Airbnb and floating city users over the past decade. We make use of qualitative and quantitative methods and draw on the official AirDNA database to analyse the relation between Airbnb and urban transformation, and the governance context. We conclude that the growth of floating city-users –stimulated by Airbnb– has been the main driver of urban change. The case of Porto –which in many ways illustrates the fast growth of short-term, rental-driven urban tourism in southern Europe– demonstrates that Airbnb’s global corporate narrative around property sharing, micro-entrepreneurship and tourism democratization hardly fits the urban reality of host professionalization, income concentration and growing massification. In this context, besides laissez-faire, urban sustainability concerns call for smarter regulatory approaches associated with more widely shared visions, and clear short, medium and long-term objectives.
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title	The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto
title_short	The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto
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The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto

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