Daniel Guttentag

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the emergence of Airbnb, a company whose website permits ordinary people to rent out their residences as tourist accommodation, and examine its rise through the lens of disruptive innovation theory, which describes how products that lack in traditionally favored attributes but offer alternative benefits can, over time, transform a market and capture mainstream consumers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present six areas of tourism in which VR may prove particularly valuable: planning and management, marketing, entertainment, education, accessibility, and heritage preservation, and numerous suggestions for future research are presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate tourists' motivations for using Airbnb and find that the majority of tourists use the service for short-term stays. But they do not consider the long-term use of the service.

TL;DR: However, there are numerous negative impacts of volunteer tourism that deserve increased attention from both researchers and project managers: neglect of locals' desires, a hindering of work progress and completion of unsatisfactory work, a disruption of local economies, a reinforcement of conceptualisations of the 'other' and rationalisations of poverty, and an instigation of cultural changes as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the extent to which Airbnb is used as a hotel substitute and examine how Airbnb guests expect their accommodations to perform relative to hotels, and find that nearly two-thirds of the tourists who use Airbnb use it as their hotel substitute.