Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets

Autor: Birgit Leick, Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, Evgueni Vinogradov, Mehtap Aldogan Eklund
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 1258–1279
Tourism Economics
ISSN: 2044-0375
1354-8166
DOI: 10.1177/1354816621990173
Popis: The relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation is mainly documented for key tourist destinations with a large tourism sector, while there is almost no evidence on this for other destinations. This article focuses on regional variations in the relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation across primary and secondary tourist destinations in Norway. Through an exploratory cluster analysis and a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model with forecast error decomposition of shocks (unobserved effects), it finds evidence of spillovers from Airbnb-based accommodation to traditional accommodation in secondary destinations. The demand for traditional accommodation is positively affected by Airbnb demand in the long run. Interestingly, a smaller effect is found with the supply-side of regional tourism markets in the Norwegian secondary tourist destinations. The growth of Airbnb may, thus, spur growth in the general tourism sector in such less frequented destinations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE