International Sharing Economy: the Case of AirBnB in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.economics-sociology.eu/?581,en_international-sharing-economy-the-case-of-airbnb-in-czech-republic" target="_blank" >https://www.economics-sociology.eu/?581,en_international-sharing-economy-the-case-of-airbnb-in-czech-republic</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-789X.2018/11-2/9" target="_blank" >10.14254/2071-789X.2018/11-2/9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

International Sharing Economy: the Case of AirBnB in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The concept of the sharing economy in accommodation business, an explosively growing business model, influences housing and hotel markets worldwide. The aim of this paper is to investigate the size of the AirBnB sector in Prague, to identify a potential disruption of the accommodation market and the potential scale of tax evasion of the AirBnB users, to state the need for additional regulation in this field. The research data were collected using the method of webscrapping from AirBnb website, then validated using the AirDNA database (18 586 units, 1 048 585 records, April 2016 to March 2017). The tax evasion was measured through authors' own model. The main results are as follows: through the offer of accommodation via AirBnB platform in Prague is extensive and compatible with the capacity of Prague hotels; the average occupancy rate in Prague is highly above the values of 14 largest European cities; 80% of the real estate units offered through the AirBnB platform do not represent the case of the usual sharing economy, but are a subject to taxes. The data on Prague substantially outstrips the European average, thus indicating to a potentially significant misuse of the AirBnB platform and a low-scale associated potential tax evasion. Czech legislation is well prepared for sharing economy. 7.4% of the AirBnB users control 39.56% of all accommodation options offered via this platform in Prague.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50204 - Business and management

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Economics and Sociology

ISSN

2071-789X

e-ISSN

2306-3459

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

126-137

UT code for WoS article

000436937200010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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