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on Tourism Economics |
| By: | Du, Muqiu (University of Eastern Finland); Xiong, Bingqing; Vu, Huy Quan; Liu, Xiaohui |
| Abstract: | The sharing economy has reshaped tourism accommodation, fostering work-for-accommodation exchanges, where travellers trade labour for accommodation as a tourism experience. We conceptualise work exchange sharing accommodation as a reciprocity-oriented tourism form. Using social exchange theory, we investigate how perceived congruence and incongruence between travellers’ giving (labour) and taking (lodging and experiences) influence satisfaction. Analysing 193, 707 traveller reviews, we find a non-linear satisfaction curve, peaking at moderate balance but declining when exchanges become excessive. Notably, travellers report higher satisfaction when receiving slightly more than they give. These insights deepen understanding of exchange dynamics in sharing economy tourism, highlight perceived fairness in host–traveller interactions, and offer practical implications for travellers, hosts, and platforms in promoting sharing economy tourism. |
| Date: | 2026–01–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:zpg7a_v1 |
| By: | Sunagawa Tomohiro (Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)); Moinul Islam (Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology); Koji Kotani (Research Institute for Future Design, Kochi University of Technology) |
| Abstract: | Many regions encounter a dilemma of how economic growth should be pursued with cultural and environmental conservation under global competition. While there are several articles that examine the relationship between development and environment, little is known about how people in a region prefer future development scenarios across economic growth and conservation. We pose a research question of how Miyako Island (MYK) people in Japan prefer a future development scenario over the growth vs. the conservation as well as rural tourism vs. urban one. It is hypothesized that (i) prosocial people and/or with an identity “I am a MYK person†prefer conservation by rural tourism and (ii) people with long residential time in MYK prefer economic growth by urban tourism. We conducted online choice experiments with permanent and temporary residents, collecting the data over their preferences for the scenarios, pro-sociality, experiences and socioeconomic factors. The results show that (i) people who have spent a relatively long period of their lives in (outside) MYK prefer the growth (conservation), (ii) a majority of MYK people are prosocial and do not prefer economic growth by urban tourism and (iii) prosocial and/or environmentally concerned people support conservation by rural tourism. Overall, we interpret that how people have been associated with MYK as residents or outsiders causes their preference gap, however, the gap will get resolved to conservation by rural tourism as people become prosocial and environmentally-concerned. In addition, it is concluded that the current development process that follows economic growth by urban tourism in MYK is unlikely to contribute to the residents’ wellbeing due to discrepancy with what the residents prefer on the basis of our results. |
| Date: | 2025–12 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:kch:wpaper:sdes-2025-11 |
| By: | Ribeiro, Diogo; de Almeida Vilares, Hugo; Carvalho, Luís |
| Abstract: | We investigate the impact of housing supply on affordability in rapidly appreciating sub-national markets in Portugal. Our spatial econometric model confirms a negative relation between housing stock and prices, yet predicts that, on average, maintaining the construction pace of the 2000s would lower prices by only 3%, while doubling it would bring a 6% reduction. We also find significant price impacts from short-term rentals and international demand. Simulations indicate that a policy mix combining moderate supply growth with sensible limitations in those domains could more effectively alleviate affordability pressures in high-demand regions, bringing spatial nuance to the “supply skepticism” debate. |
| Keywords: | housing affordability; supply skepticism; short-term rentals; tourism; spatial spillovers |
| JEL: | R21 R23 R31 R38 |
| Date: | 2025–12–10 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ehl:lserod:130587 |