Abstract:

In a relatively short period of time, the development of the sharing economy has surprised analysts and practitioners with a new perspective on how to access and distribute services, the speed of growth in a multitude of economic sectors and their global expansion. In the field of tourism, home sharing has come to satisfy the changes in the preferences and behaviour of tourist, mainly oriented now towards vacations that offer authentic and memorable experiences. In this article we made a comparison between the expectations of tourists from Airbnb and those they have from a traditional accommodation and which are the reasons why people choose collaborative services. We are also interested to see how these home sharing systems have adapted to the recent challenges posed by the global pandemic crisis, differences and similarities with the strategies of traditional operators, and to what extent we can anticipate future trends in tourism accommodations. However, the data about online platforms, in general, but also about the Airbnb platform, in particular, are not well nuanced, despite the fact that there is more and more interest in this field, and the ongoing impact of the global pandemic is still partially captured and refined in international statistics on tourism.