Collaborative Economy and Tourism : Perspectives, Politics, Policies and Prospects

✍ Scribed by Dianne Dredge, Szilvia Gyimóthy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Tourism on the Verge
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise and similar phenomena are among these collective innovations in tourism that are shaking the very bedrock of an industrial system that has been traditionally sustained along commercial value chains. To date there has been very little investigation of these trends, which have been inspired by, amongst other things, de-industrialization processes and post-capitalist forms of production and consumption, postmaterialism, the rise of the third sector and collaborative governance. Addressing that gap, this book explores the character, depth and breadth of these disruptions, the creative opportunities for tourism that are emerging from them, and how governments are responding to these new challenges. In doing so, the book provides both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism in a world that is, paradoxically, becoming both increasingly collaborative and individualized.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Collaborative Economy and Tourism....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Definitions and Mapping the Landscape in the Collaborative Economy....Pages 15-30
Business Models of the Collaborative Economy....Pages 31-39
Responsibility and Care in the Collaborative Economy....Pages 41-57
Networked Cultures in the Collaborative Economy....Pages 59-74
Policy and Regulatory Challenges in the Tourism Collaborative Economy....Pages 75-93
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Regulating Innovation in the Collaborative Economy: An Examination of Airbnb’s Early Legal Issues....Pages 97-128
Free Walking Tour Enterprises in Europe: An Evolutionary Economic Approach....Pages 129-151
Airbnb: Turning the Collaborative Economy into a Collaborative Society....Pages 153-168
Sharing the New Localities of Tourism....Pages 169-184
Collaborative Economy and Destination Marketing Organisations: A Systems Approach....Pages 185-202
Working Within the Collaborative Tourist Economy: The Complex Crafting of Work and Meaning....Pages 203-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Embedding Social Values in Tourism Management: Community Currencies as Laboratories of Social Entrepreneurship?....Pages 223-240
Improvising Economy: Everyday Encounters and Tourism Consumption....Pages 241-254
Community and Connection: Exploring Non-monetary Aspects of the Collaborative Economy Through Recreation Vehicle Use....Pages 255-270
Collaborative Economy in Tourism in Latin America: The Case of Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Mexico....Pages 271-284
Peer-To-Peer Accommodation: Drivers and User Profiles....Pages 285-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
New Frontiers in Collaborative Economy Research in Tourism....Pages 307-323

✦ Subjects

Tourism Management;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Business Ethics;Industrial Organization