Is there an urban-rural divide in the demand for peer-to-peer accommodation sharing?

Renuka Mahadevan

Current Issues in Tourism, 2022, vol. 25, issue 19, 3098-3105

Abstract: This research note sheds light on the regional dimension underlying peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) in urban and rural areas. Using a survey on Australian residents’ use of P2PA, empirical results show that economic benefits and local experience are not strong motives in urban areas unlike the rural areas. Unlike previous studies, locational benefits were a deterrent in urban areas and more so in rural areas, while social experience, home benefits, or the sharing economy philosophy have no effect on P2PA demand. These findings are not only useful for P2PA hosts to market their services in urban and rural areas but they inform traditional accommodation providers in different locations to devise strategies to lure customers away from P2PA.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13683500.2020.1715356 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:25:y:2022:i:19:p:3098-3105

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rcit20

DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2020.1715356

Access Statistics for this article

Current Issues in Tourism is currently edited by Jennifer Tunstall

More articles in Current Issues in Tourism from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().