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What is Housing Reservation Platform

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism
Companies, mainly multinational, whose activity is carried out on the Internet, and which are responsible for reservation tourist housing worldwide, creating a global market, easy and accessible for owners of tourist housing and a form of cheaper accommodation with a different service to the traditional one for its customers.
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The Impact of Vacation Rentals on Housing: State of the Art and Proposals
Ricardo Urrestarazu (University of Málaga, Spain), Alejandro Garcia Pozo (University of Málaga, Spain), and Jose Luis Sanchez-Ollero (University of Málaga, Spain)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch010
Abstract
The increase in the price of housing for rent and ownership in the city of Malaga is causing a problem of accessibility to it for the most disadvantaged sectors of the municipality, coinciding at the same time with the expansion of the vacation rentals on housing. This phenomenon is characteristic of the Spanish tourist cities, with growths of this variable greater than the national average; and not only is it depressing family income already reduced in recent years, but they are influencing essential aspects of the urban morphology of the city such as its historical heritage and its commercial fabric. All this is producing a social and academic debate on what public policy proposals might be that could be made to limit the growth of the phenomenon.
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