Jiao Junfeng, Bai Shunhua
The Urban Information Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, 306 Inner Campus Dr., Austin, TX 78712, United States of America.
Cities. 2020 Apr;99. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102618. Epub 2020 Feb 4.
In the past ten years, Airbnb has rapidly grown from a small, online bed and breakfast product to a leading peer-to-peer hospitality magnate which operates in eighty thousand cities globally. It now offers rooms-for-rent, entire houses for rent, and even allows people to book 'experiences' through the platform. Consequently, cities, researchers, and the concerned public are focusing more on its impacts and exploring viable ways to regulate and facilitate the business while minimizing its potentially negative effects. To better understand Airbnb's operation in US cities, this paper explored how demographics, socioeconomics, and transportation might affect Airbnb listings in forty US cities. The results showed that Airbnb rentals were more likely to locate in neighborhoods with good transit service, short distances to the city center, and high median house value and household income. This study indicated the possible social inequality risk in the shared economy.
在过去十年中，爱彼迎（Airbnb）已从一个小型在线民宿产品迅速成长为全球领先的点对点住宿巨头，业务遍及全球八万个城市。如今，它提供房间出租、整栋房屋出租，甚至还允许人们通过该平台预订“体验”项目。因此，城市、研究人员及相关公众越来越关注其影响，并探索可行的方法来规范和促进该业务，同时尽量减少其潜在的负面影响。为了更好地了解爱彼迎在美国城市的运营情况，本文探讨了人口统计学、社会经济学和交通因素如何影响美国四十个城市的爱彼迎房源。结果表明，爱彼迎的出租房源更有可能位于交通服务良好、距离市中心较近、房屋中位价值和家庭收入较高的社区。这项研究表明了共享经济中可能存在的社会不平等风险。
