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Abstract
Red flags are increasingly being raised over the contribution of short term tourism rentals (mediated by platforms such as Airbnb) to socio-spatial inequalities and residential displacement. In many cases, the most vocal reactions have come from social movements claiming the Right to the City through particular geographies of resistance that underpin protest counter-narratives in the digital and non-digital spheres. In order to evaluate this relationship, a digital content analysis based on a sample of around 16,000 tweets illustrates the depth and diversity of tourism counter-narratives within the Twitter activity of social movements in opposition to tourism saturation in the city of Barcelona. This approach is triangulated with a spatial analysis of Airbnb-mediated rentals in Barcelona, based on GIS mapping, as well as correlations with a variety of geo-referenced data sources and the application of different socio-economic variables. The relationship between these two dimensions is key for policymakers in influencing regulatory approaches to collaborative platform activity and mitigating socio-spatial inequalities generated by short term rentals and the platforms that mediate them.
摘要
爱彼迎平台支持的短期旅游租赁对社会空间不平等和居民流离失所的影响越来越大。在许多情况下, 最激烈的声援来自于通过特定的抵抗地理来争取城市权利的社会运动, 这些抵抗地理为数字和非数字领域的反抗叙事提供了基础。为了评估这种关系, 一项基于大约16000条推文样本的数字内容分析, 说明了在反对巴塞罗那市旅游饱和的社会运动中, 推文中反对旅游业叙事的深度和多样性。该方法是基于地理信息系统制图, 以及与各种地理参考数据源的相关性分析和不同社会经济变量的应用, 对巴塞罗那爱彼迎支持的短租租金进行空间分析进行了多数据源的三角验证。这两个维度之间的关系对于决策者来说是至关重要的, 它们可以影响对协作平台活动的监管方法, 缓解由短期租金和中介平台所产生的社会空间不平等。
Acknowledgements
The research that this article was based on was funded by the ECCOLTUR project - Collaborative Economy and Tourism Spaces: Contributions,transformations and challenges’ (funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, ref G60667813, 2018-2020) and the project ‘Citizen-Based Resistance and Protest Movements against the Growing Impacts of Platform Capitalism in Tourism: the case of Barcelona (funded by UOC-La Caixa Programa de Projectes Interdisciplinaris, 2018-2019).
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Notes
1 Please note that this analysis of ‘words’ also extends to the hashtags contained within tweets. On Twitter and other social networks, a hashtag is a metadata tag (#) that permits dynamic, user-generated tagging of content with a specific theme.
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Soledad Morales-Pérez
Soledad Morales-Pérez is Associate Professor of Economics and Business Studies at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and member of the UOC tourism research group NOUTUR. At present, her research interests include the analysis of collaborative economies in socio-spatial transformations of tourism spaces, new narratives and measurement of tourist sustainability, and event tourism impacts in public space.
Lluís Garay
Lluís Garay is Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona, Spain. His main areas of research interest concern diverse forces transforming the tourism activity, highlighting the collaborative, co-creative, sustainable and responsible processes causing disruptive impacts on urban and rural socio-economic environments and organizations. He is the coordinator of the NOUTUR research group (UOC) which aims to analyse the impacts that tourism and leisure activities are causing within the contexts of destinations (territories), organizations (both business and non-business) and consumption patterns (both tourists and residents).
Julie Wilson
Julie Wilson is Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR Research Group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona. Her research interests include the role of tourism in the transformation and socio-spatial evolution of landscapes (urban and rural), the role of culture and creativity in sustainable tourism activity and evolutionary economic geography as a conceptual framework in urban and regional tourism development.