Open AccessAirbnb: Understanding the Concept, Recognizing the Values
Author(s) -
Ramesh Raj Kunwar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of tourism and hospitality education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2467-9550
DOI - 10.3126/jthe.v10i0.28764
Subject(s) - accommodation , sharing economy , hospitality , tourism , work (physics) , hospitality industry , sociology , peer to peer , business , marketing , public relations , knowledge management , psychology , computer science , political science , world wide web , engineering , mechanical engineering , neuroscience , law
Peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation into the tourism market through a model of disruptive innovation is going to be very popular in the world. This has been coined as network hospitality led by Airbnb platform which will work as a mediator between the hosts and guests. Trust plays the major role for decision making to buy the shelter. The objective of studying this new area is to understand in better way through the help of secondary sources. Academic research is generally guided by the theories. Therefore, the researcher aimed to know which kind of concepts and models were applied by previous scholars. The study is confined to the Airbnb and Couchsurfing. For this study, the researcher has followed umbrella type of review research which will shed light on the knowledge of peer-to-peer accommodation and sharing economy.