@misc{10481/60125,
year = {2019},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/60125},
abstract = {The rising number of homes and apartments rented out through Airbnb and similar
peer-to-peer accommodation platforms cause concerns about the impact of such activity on the
tourism sector and property market. To date, spatial analysis on peer-to-peer rental activity has
been usually limited in scope to individual large cities. In this study, we take into account the
whole territory of Spain, with special attention given to cities and regions with high tourist activity.
We use a dataset of about 250 thousand Airbnb listings in Spain obtained from the Airbnb webpage,
aggregate the numbers of these offers in 8124 municipalities and 79 tourist areas/sites, measure their
concentration, spatial autocorrelation, and develop regression models to find the determinants of
Airbnb rentals’ distribution. We conclude that apart from largest cities, Airbnb is active in holiday
destinations of Spain, where it often serves as an intermediary for the rental of second or investment
homes and apartments. The location of Airbnb listings is mostly determined by the supply of empty
or secondary dwellings, distribution of traditional tourism accommodation, coastal location, and the
level of internationalization of tourism demand.},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Peer-to-peer accommodation},
keywords = {Sharing economy},
keywords = {Collaborative economy},
keywords = {Airbnb},
keywords = {Residential tourism},
keywords = {Second homes},
title = {Airbnb Offer in Spain—Spatial Analysis of the Pattern and Determinants of Its Distribution},
doi = {10.3390/ijgi8030155},
author = {Adamiak, Czeslaw and Szyda, Barbara and Dubownik, Anna and García Álvarez, David},
}