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Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism

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Authors:
  1. Maartje Roelofsen

    1. Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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  • Explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds
  • Analyzes the impacts of platforms on the scale of the city, the home, and the everyday life of individuals
  • Reflects on the political dimensions of datafication processes and digital systems of measurement

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 1-9

  3. A Brief History of Tourism Platforms

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 11-35

  4. The Socio-Spatial Impacts of Airbnb

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 37-66

  5. Airbnb-ed Homes and Everyday Life

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 67-98

  6. Datafication of Everyday Life and Bodies

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 99-119

  7. Conclusion

    • Maartje Roelofsen
    Pages 121-127

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 129-133
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About this book

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with hosts and guests, the book analyses the impacts of platforms on the scale of the city, the home, and the everyday life of individuals. The book first situates platforms within the broader history of digital developments in tourism and questions what is essentially new about these socio-technical formations? The following chapters demonstrate how platforms have affected urban housing, challenged the tourism sector, and transformed understandings of hospitality and home. This is illustrated through a case-study of Airbnb’s development and impact in Sofia, Bulgaria. The final chapters of the book reflect on the political dimensions of datafication processes and digital systems of measurement that underpin the platform’s workings, showing how the platform economies of tourism benefit their users in highly uneven ways.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Maartje Roelofsen

About the author

Maartje Roelofsen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. She has longstanding teaching- and research experience in the fields of Tourism, Geography and Planning. Her work has been concerned with the digital transformations of urban space, everyday life, leisure and the tourism economy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism

  • Authors: Maartje Roelofsen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04010-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04009-2Published: 21 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04010-8Published: 20 May 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 133

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Human Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology, general, Geography, general, Public Policy

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