Exploring the relationship between Airbnb and traditional accommodation for regional variations of tourism markets

• Birgit Leick ^[4] ; Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal ^[3] ; Mehtap Aldogan Eklund ^[2] ; Evgueni Vinogradov ^[1]
  1. [1] Nordland Research Institute

     Nordland Research Institute

     Noruega

     
  2. [2] University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

     University of Wisconsin–La Crosse

     City of La Crosse, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
  4. [4] University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

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• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 28, Nº. Extra 5, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Panel Data Models in Tourism Research), págs. 1258-1279
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  • The relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation is mainly documented for key tourist destinations with a large tourism sector, while there is almost no evidence on this for other destinations. This article focuses on regional variations in the relationship between Airbnb-based and traditional accommodation across primary and secondary tourist destinations in Norway. Through an exploratory cluster analysis and a panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model with forecast error decomposition of shocks (unobserved effects), it finds evidence of spillovers from Airbnb-based accommodation to traditional accommodation in secondary destinations. The demand for traditional accommodation is positively affected by Airbnb demand in the long run. Interestingly, a smaller effect is found with the supply-side of regional tourism markets in the Norwegian secondary tourist destinations. The growth of Airbnb may, thus, spur growth in the general tourism sector in such less frequented destinations.