Airbnb: The Emergence of a New Accommodation Type in Cape Town, South Africa

• Visser, Gustav ^[1] ; Erasmus, Inge ^[1] ; Miller, Matthew ^[1]
  1. [1] Stellenbosch University

     Stellenbosch University

     Stellenbosch, Sudáfrica

     
• Localización: Tourism review international, ISSN 1544-2721, Vol. 21, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 151-168
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The appearance and expansion of Airbnb as part of the sharing economy have generated a growing debate in tourism scholarship. Within sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa is currently the major focus of Airbnb operations. This article investigates the recent proliferation of Airbnb's accommodation in Cape Town, South Africa's premier international tourist destination. Responding to changing tourist preferences and dynamic change in readily accessible technologies, Airbnb has found a niche in the tourist accommodation market left vacant by more traditional and formal tourist accommodation types. Despite its explosive expansion, little is known about this phenomenon in South Africa. This investigation seeks to address the limited scholarship on this tourist accommodation segment in South Africa in the empirical setting of Cape Town. Issues under scrutiny are the spatial and temporal development of Airbnb in Cape Town and the characteristics of Airbnb providers and guests