Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the past several years, with millions of tourists having used the service. The purpose of this study was to investigate tourists’ motivations for using Airbnb and ...to segment them accordingly. The study involved an online survey completed in 2015 by more than 800 tourists who had stayed in Airbnb accommodation during the previous 12 months. Aggregate results indicated that respondents were most strongly attracted to Airbnb by its practical attributes, and somewhat less so by its experiential attributes. An exploratory factor analysis identified five motivating factors—Interaction, Home Benefits, Novelty, Sharing Economy Ethos, and Local Authenticity. A subsequent cluster analysis divided the respondents into five segments—Money Savers, Home Seekers, Collaborative Consumers, Pragmatic Novelty Seekers, and Interactive Novelty Seekers. Profiling of the segments revealed numerous distinctive characteristics. Various practical and conceptual implications of the findings are discussed.
This paper presents a class of state-dependent switched neural networks with inertial items and distributed delays. Several new results are derived to ensure the exponential synchronization of such ...switched neural networks by using a novel hybrid control scheme and the Lyapunov stability theory. Finally, simulations are given to show the validity of the derived results. We believe the new useful control method of this paper widens the application scope for the switched neural networks.
Sharing economy platforms are growing at an unprecedented rate. Travel and tourism scholars have been focusing on customers’ sharing intention, yet the literature has largely overlooked what makes ...sharing service providers trust a sharing economy platform and decide to continue using it. Drawing on sociotechnical theory and the information systems success model, in conjunction with privacy concerns and economic value perspectives, this study develops an integrated model of antecedents and consequences of trust toward sharing economy platforms. Data from 606 Airbnb hosts were analyzed through structural equation modeling. Our research documents the importance of social antecedents (i.e., social value orientation and social utility), technical antecedents (i.e., system quality, service quality, and information quality), economic antecedents (i.e., monetary rewards) and privacy assurance antecedents (i.e., perceived effectiveness of privacy policy) in shaping hosts’ trust toward Airbnb, thereby enhancing their continuance intention with regard to using the platform.
By exploring the visitors' book as an artefact of diverse uses and discursive practices, this article demonstrates how it served as a site for communication amongst distinctive sub-sets of ...travellers; at the same time, its intrinsic flexibility was exemplified by ways it figured in public dialogues. Using the book of the Griffin Inn in Amersham, Buckinghamshire as a case study, the article explores the variety of users and uses associated with one volume and traces the book's emplacement within both exclusive, deeply encoded exchanges between particular inscribers and readers, and much wider audiences beyond the hostelry's walls.
As peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation service often involves multistage interactions between hosts and guests in online and offline settings, trust between the parties involved is of the utmost ...importance. In particular, the possibility of interacting offline in P2P service delivery highlights the significance of interpersonal trust between hosts and guests. Accordingly, this study examines the formation of trusting beliefs in hosts, comprising prospective guests’ perception of the ability, benevolence, and integrity of the hosts. This study estimated the effects of two antecedents—propensity to trust and trust in P2P platform—on trusting beliefs, as well as the consequence of trusting beliefs, that is, behavioral intention to book from the host. Important implications for trust formation in a P2P accommodation marketplace are provided.
Between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century Prerogativa Regis, a central text of fiscal feudalism, was introduced into the curriculum of the Inns of Court, developed, and then abandoned. This ...2003 book argues that while lawyers often turned their attention to the text when political and financial issues brought it to the fore, they sought to maintain an intellectual consistency and coherence in the law. Discussions of both substance and procedure demonstrate how readers reflected the concerns of their time in the topics they chose to consider and how they drew on the learning of both their predecessors and their peers at the Inns. The first study based primarily on readings, this book threw light on legal education, early Tudor financial and administrative procedure, and the relationship between the ways that law was made, taught and used.
The global exponential stabilization and lag synchronization control of delayed inertial neural networks (INNs) are investigated. By constructing nonnegative function and employing inequality ...techniques, several new results about exponential stabilization and exponential lag synchronization are derived via adaptive control. And the theoretical outcomes are developed directly from the INNs themselves without variable substitution. In addition, the synchronization results are also applied to image encryption and decryption. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate the validity of the derived results.
Ryokans (Japanese inns) that have been having difficulty attracting guests will improve their management by accepting foreign visitors to Japan after the end of COVID-19 pandemic. This study finds ...the attractiveness of Japanese inns to foreign visitors of Japan by analyzing and comparing reviews posted in the Japanese and English language by guests of the top 20 “Japanese inns popular among foreigners” on Tripadvisor (2020). As the result, the attractiveness of Japanese inns to foreign visitors to Japan are Japanese-style rooms, Japanese food, tatami mats, yukata (Japanese summer kimono), gardens, and open-air hot spring baths, which are not special to Japanese people. Based on these findings, I proposed ways for inns under severe business situation to satisfy foreign visitors, drawing on the other successful cases of accepting foreign visitors to Japan.
The ‘sharing economy’ has become a new buzzword in urban life as digital technology companies set up online platforms to link together people and un- or underutilised assets with those seeking to ...rent them for short periods of time. While cloaked under the rhetoric of ‘sharing’, the exchanges they foster are usually profit-driven. These economic activities are having profound impacts on urban environments as they disrupt traditional forms of hospitality, transport, service industry and housing. While critical debates have focused on the challenges that sharing economy activities bring to existing labour and economic practices, it is necessary to acknowledge that they also have increasingly significant impacts on planning policy and urban governance. Using the case of Airbnb in London, this article looks at how these sharing or platform economy companies are involved in encouraging governments to change existing regulations, in this case by deregulating short-term letting. This has important implications for planning enforcement. We examine how the challenges around obtaining data to enforce new regulations are being addressed by local councils who struggle to balance corporate interests with public good. Finally, we address proposals for using algorithms and big data as means of urban governance and argue that the schism between regulation and enforcement is opening up new digitally mediated spaces of informal practices in cities.
数字技术公司建立了在线平台，将人员和未利用或未充分利用的资产与希望短期出租的业主联系起来。在这一方式下， “共享经济” 己经成为城市生活中的新口号。但是，虽然有 “共享” 的修辞，这些方式培养的交流通常是由利润驱动的。这些经济活动破坏了传统的酒店、交通、服务业和住房形式，对城市环境产生了深远的影响。虽然关键的辩论集中在共享经济活动给现有劳动和经济实践带来的挑战上，但有必要承认它们对规划政策和城市治理也有越来越大的影响。本文以 Airbnb 在伦敦的运行情况为案例，探讨这些共享或平台经济公司如何参与鼓励政府改变现有的法规，在伦敦的具体案例中是放松对短租的限制。这对规划的执行具有重要意义。我们研宄了地方议会如何通过努力平衡公司利益和公共利益来克服获得数据以执行新法规的挑战。最后，我们提出使用算法和大数据作为城市治理手段的建议，认为监管与执法之间的分裂正在开辟城市非正式实践的新型数字媒介空间。
The purpose of this paper is to extend the research on consumer repurchase intention, perceived value, and perceived risk into the realm of the peer-to-peer economy, specifically in the context of ...Airbnb. A total of 395 surveys were collected in Canada and the United States. The results showed that perceived risk negatively impacts Airbnb consumers' perceived value and repurchase intention while perceived value positively enhances their repurchase intention. Interestingly, price sensitivity was found not to reduce customers' perceived risk but can improve their perceived value and positively influences them to repurchase the Airbnb products. Perceived authenticity was found to have a significant effect in reducing Airbnb consumers' perceived risk and positively influencing their perceived value. Electronic word-of-mouth has a positive effect on repurchase intention as well as perceived value whereas it negatively affects perceived risk. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed and future study directions are offered.
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