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Collaborative Economy and Tourism

Perspectives, Politics, Policies and Prospects

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Editors:
  1. Dianne Dredge

    1. Department of Culture & Global Studies, Aalborg University, Copenhagen SV, Denmark

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  2. Szilvia Gyimóthy

    1. Department of Culture & Global Studies, Aalborg University, Copenhagen SV, Denmark

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  • Explains the rise of collaborative economy developments in the tourism industry
  • Conceptualizes collaborative value constellations among global and local market actors
  • Highlights challenges for governance in collaborative economy dynamics in tourism
  • Describes and provides a taxonomy of collaborative economy phenomena through empirical cases from a variety of geographical and cultural contexts

Part of the book series: Tourism on the Verge (TV)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Collaborative Economy and Tourism

    • Dianne Dredge, Szilvia Gyimóthy
    Pages 1-12

  3. Theoretical Explorations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Definitions and Mapping the Landscape in the Collaborative Economy

      • Szilvia Gyimóthy, Dianne Dredge
      Pages 15-30

    3. Business Models of the Collaborative Economy

      • Szilvia Gyimóthy
      Pages 31-39

    4. Responsibility and Care in the Collaborative Economy

      • Dianne Dredge
      Pages 41-57

    5. Networked Cultures in the Collaborative Economy

      • Szilvia Gyimóthy
      Pages 59-74

    6. Policy and Regulatory Challenges in the Tourism Collaborative Economy

      • Dianne Dredge
      Pages 75-93

  4. Disruptions, Innovations and Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Regulating Innovation in the Collaborative Economy: An Examination of Airbnb’s Early Legal Issues

      • Daniel Guttentag
      Pages 97-128

    3. Free Walking Tour Enterprises in Europe: An Evolutionary Economic Approach

      • María del Pilar Leal Londoño, F. Xavier Medina
      Pages 129-151

    4. Airbnb: Turning the Collaborative Economy into a Collaborative Society

      • D. Michael O’Regan, Jaeyeon Choe
      Pages 153-168

    5. Sharing the New Localities of Tourism

      • Greg Richards
      Pages 169-184

    6. Collaborative Economy and Destination Marketing Organisations: A Systems Approach

      • Jonathon Day
      Pages 185-202

    7. Working Within the Collaborative Tourist Economy: The Complex Crafting of Work and Meaning

      • Jane Widtfeldt Meged, Mathilde Dissing Christensen
      Pages 203-220
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About this book

This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise and similar phenomena are among these collective innovations in tourism that are shaking the very bedrock of an industrial system that has been traditionally sustained along commercial value chains. To date there has been very little investigation of these trends, which have been inspired by, amongst other things, de-industrialization processes and post-capitalist forms of production and consumption, postmaterialism, the rise of the third sector and collaborative governance. Addressing that gap, this book explores the character, depth and breadth of these disruptions, the creative opportunities for tourism that are emerging from them, and how governments are responding to these new challenges. In doing so, the book provides both theoretical and practical insights into the future of tourism in a world that is, paradoxically, becoming both increasingly collaborative and individualized. 





Reviews

“Collaborative economy and tourism is an effective tool to help educate practitioners on the true nature and complexity of the CE and stimulate a much-needed academic debate. … is an enjoyable thought-provoking read that succeeds in its stated goals of challenging myths and stimulating an academic debate.” (Brendan Richard, Anatolia, Vol. 29 (2), 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture & Global Studies, Aalborg University, Copenhagen SV, Denmark

    Dianne Dredge, Szilvia Gyimóthy

About the editors

Dianne Dredge is Professor (Tourism and Destination Development) in the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is Chair of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI), a network of tourism educators who believe in the powerful transformative effects of education in building sustainable and just forms of tourism for the future. Originally trained as an environmental planner, Dianne has research interests in tourism and development, collaborative governance, community capacity-building, tourism policy ecologies, policy learning, knowledge dynamics and higher education. Her preference is for active engaged research that pushes boundaries and that bridges theory and practice. While originally from Australia, Dianne has also lived and/or worked in Canada, Mexico, China and Denmark, experiences that have sharpened her interest in embedded community case study methodologies, community participation, capacity-building, cross-cultural communication and knowledge dynamics in and across research and practice worlds.



Szilvia Gyimóthy is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture & Global Studies Aalborg University, Denmark. She is head of Research at the Tourism Research Unit, a multidisciplinary team specializing in transformative research projects shaping of sustainable and smart tourism futures. Her research focuses on strategic placemaking and competitive differentiation of regions in the experience economy with a primary interest in collaborative value creation. Szilvia’s research is moving beyond singularized notions of tourism production and consumption, and captures its embeddedness with leisure, popular culture and food production. In the past few years, Szilvia investigated novel value-creation mechanisms focusing on the involvement of consumer tribes, communities and digital endeavours and explored the potentials of the collaborative economy for urban and coastal destinations alike. 
 


 

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