The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)

Last five years have witnessed the birth and rapid sprawl of Airbnb, an app that offers short-term rentals across the world. Using as a case study the Historical quarter in Palma (Mallorca), the paper problematizes three of the basic selfcreated Airbnb assumptions: (i) Airbnb enrich low-income popul...

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Autor: Yrigoy, Ismael
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de las Islas Baleares
Repositorio:Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balears
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Palabra clave:Rent -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Palma)
Rental housing
Tourism
Natural History
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spelling The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)Yrigoy, IsmaelRent -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Palma)Rental housingTourismNatural HistoryLast five years have witnessed the birth and rapid sprawl of Airbnb, an app that offers short-term rentals across the world. Using as a case study the Historical quarter in Palma (Mallorca), the paper problematizes three of the basic selfcreated Airbnb assumptions: (i) Airbnb enrich low-income population. (ii) Airbnb invigorates the housing market (iii) Airbnb boost forms of tourism more acceptable by local residents. This paper argues that the emergence of Airbnb is triggering a wave of tourism led-gentrification which is rooted in a substitution of the residential rental by a tourism rental market. This substitution has amongst other, three main consequences which are analysed in this paper. First, the eruption of tourism-oriented rentals as the main, if not only, form of land rent in this quarter. Second, the consolidation of large landowners and real estate agencies specialized on the Airbnb market. Third, an increase in the social contestation against tourism in Palma Old Quarter.Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears2016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/monografiesHistoriaNatural/index/assoc/Monograf/iesSHNB_/2016vol0/23p281.dir/MonografiesSHNB_2016vol023p281.pdfhttp://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/monografiesHistoriaNatural/document/MonografiesSHNB_2016vol023p281reponame:Biblioteca Digital de les Illes Balearsinstname:Universidad de las Islas BalearesInglésMonografies de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears 2016, n. 23, pp. 281-289All rights reservedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessmonografiesHistoriaNatural:MonografiesSHNB_2016vol023p2812026-05-28T12:40:11Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
title The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
spellingShingle The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
Yrigoy, Ismael
Rent -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Palma)
Rental housing
Tourism
Natural History
title_short The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
title_full The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
title_fullStr The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
title_full_unstemmed The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
title_sort The impact of Airbnb in the urban arena: towards a tourism-led gentrification? The case-study of Palma old quarter (Mallorca, Spain)
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Yrigoy, Ismael
author Yrigoy, Ismael
author_facet Yrigoy, Ismael
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Rent -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Palma)
Rental housing
Tourism
Natural History
topic Rent -- Spain -- Balearic Islands -- Majorca (Palma)
Rental housing
Tourism
Natural History
description Last five years have witnessed the birth and rapid sprawl of Airbnb, an app that offers short-term rentals across the world. Using as a case study the Historical quarter in Palma (Mallorca), the paper problematizes three of the basic selfcreated Airbnb assumptions: (i) Airbnb enrich low-income population. (ii) Airbnb invigorates the housing market (iii) Airbnb boost forms of tourism more acceptable by local residents. This paper argues that the emergence of Airbnb is triggering a wave of tourism led-gentrification which is rooted in a substitution of the residential rental by a tourism rental market. This substitution has amongst other, three main consequences which are analysed in this paper. First, the eruption of tourism-oriented rentals as the main, if not only, form of land rent in this quarter. Second, the consolidation of large landowners and real estate agencies specialized on the Airbnb market. Third, an increase in the social contestation against tourism in Palma Old Quarter.
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