Potential impacts of P2P acommodation on Rural-mountain areas. A case study from the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain).

This paper seeks to contribute to existing literature by exploring the potential impacts of Peer-to-Peer (p2p) accommodation on a rural mountain area in the Pyrenees in Catalonia (Spain). The results indicate how widely p2p accommodation can penetrate areas of this kind. The findings suggest that th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gómez Martín, Belén, Armesto López, Xosé Antón, Cors i Iglesias, Martí
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/227915
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227915
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Turisme rural
Pirineu català (Catalunya)
Allotjaments turístics
Rural tourism
Catalonian pyrenees (Catalonia)
Tourist accommodation
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Sumario:This paper seeks to contribute to existing literature by exploring the potential impacts of Peer-to-Peer (p2p) accommodation on a rural mountain area in the Pyrenees in Catalonia (Spain). The results indicate how widely p2p accommodation can penetrate areas of this kind. The findings suggest that this phenomenon has brought few benefits for local development and has created severe competition for conventional tourism accommodation, despite having a smaller economic impact in terms of job creation and tourist spending. In addition, the relative ease with which it avoids administrative and fiscal controls has negative repercussions for the tax revenues of local authorities. The growth in tourist rental properties is also having harmful effects on the study area in terms of its tourist load capacity, and the high pressure it puts on housing stock is causing shortages in residential housing and sharp price increases.