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Platform-Mediated Tourism - Social Justice and Urban Governance before and during Covid-19 (Hardcover)
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Platform-Mediated Tourism - Social Justice and Urban Governance before and during Covid-19 (Hardcover)
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This book presents theoretical and empirical perspectives on
platform-mediated tourism, with a special focus on Airbnb. The case
studies included in this volume show that the impacts of short-term
renting on neighbourhoods, residents and tourism operators are
uneven, but increasingly significant. During the past decade,
digital platforms for short-term rental, transport, social dining
etc., have enabled the development of a new generation of
entrepreneurs in tourism and mobility. The mediation of services
through digital platforms was initially presented as a form of a
sharing economy led by non-professional providers, but it has grown
into a new form of capitalist speculation. The inadequacy of
existing legal frameworks in regulating platform-mediated
activities has generated reactions by social movements, especially
for the protection of housing rights. With the outbreak of
Covid-19, the downfall in the mobility and tourism economy has
revealed the acuteness of the structural crisis of cities and of
labour based on platform-mediated activities. In Europe, networks
of cities are taking action against platforms to regain their
control over data that is needed to regulate platform-mediated
tourism services, and the rights of residents in tourism cities.
The authors in this edited volume explore issues of social justice
in terms of residents' quality of life, working conditions, the
housing market, urban structure, the morality of operators who
navigate through normative loopholes, and the responsibility issues
of platform companies holding data on short-term rentals. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of
Sustainable Tourism.
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