The purpose of this study is to examine the role social networking technologies play in the
moral economy of alternative tourism. The study takes as its empirical focus the online …

Based on a qualitative interview study and on a quantitative survey among users of the room-
sharing platform Airbnb, we show that situational closeness between sharing economy …

The growing popularity of online hospitality exchange networks like Couchsurfing and
Airbnb point toward a new paradigm of sociality for a mobile and networked society as …

Online hospitality and traveller platforms have spawned novel formulas of hospitality for new
networks of hosts and guests, including couchsurfers, who, while staying in the private …

The present report 'Privacy in the Sharing Economy: European Perspectives', covers the
Privacy part of Ps2share: a European Horizon 2020 Research Project focusing on the …

This paper explores the changing relations between people and place that are set in motion
through mobility. Examining the mobilities of lifestyle travellers, it argues that new relations …

Practicing network hospitality—that is, taking part in the processes wherein users of
hospitality exchange services, connect, and interact with one another online and off-line—is …

Purpose Collaborative consumption experiences in tourism have been examined widely, yet
predominantly focused on guest perspectives. Using the sharing economy platform …

Tourists are increasingly turning to peer-to-peer platforms such as Airbnb to arrange
homestays in their destinations. For better or for worse, these forms of network hospitality are …

This paper analyses the profile of locals willing to meet tourists in a context of experience
interchange peer-to-peer (P2P) and identifies factors that drive such contact in an authentic …