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  • Airbnb e Covid-19. Il ruolo...
    Iacovone, Chiara

    Geography notebooks = Quaderni di geografia = Cahiers de géographie = Cuadernos de geografía, 12/2022, Letnik: 5, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    In the last years the tourist hospitality sector faced substantial changes due to the digital revolution carried on by platforms such as Airbnb. In almost a decade Airbnb consolidated its position as a principal channel in the short-term rental market. Over this period, it faced a series of internal changes regarding the composition of the hosts. Property managers, real estate firms, and tourism hospitality professionals used Airbnb as a preferential channel to their business establishing a professional offer within the platform. This dynamic highly disadvantaged smallest and non-professional hosts. This article analyzes the category of professional host highlighting how, even during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020), they had maintained their leading position experiencing the best performances.