@article{1446941,
      recid = {1446941},
      author = {Roelofsen, Maartje,},
      title = {Hospitality, home and life in the platform economies of  tourism /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of  tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material  worlds. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with  hosts and guests, the book analyses the impacts of  platforms on the scale of the city, the home, and the  everyday life of individuals. The book first situates  platforms within the broader history of digital  developments in tourism and questions what is essentially  new about these socio-technical formations? The following  chapters demonstrate how platforms have affected urban  housing, challenged the tourism sector, and transformed  understandings of hospitality and home. This is illustrated  through a case-study of Airbnb's development and impact in  Sofia, Bulgaria. The final chapters of the book reflect on  the political dimensions of datafication processes and  digital systems of measurement that underpin the platform's  workings, showing how the platform economies of tourism  benefit their users in highly uneven ways. Maartje  Roelofsen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat  Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. She has longstanding teaching-  and research experience in the fields of Tourism, Geography  and Planning. Her work has been concerned with the digital  transformations of urban space, everyday life, leisure and  the tourism economy.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446941},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04010-8},
}