Edith Cecilia Ruíz (p), Beatriz Sánchez, Agustin Alvárez Herranz

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

-Airbnb has become one of the most popular tourist accommodation alternatives since 2008 due to its low “prices” and interactions with the local community, however, it has disrupted the rental accommodation market in several cities where it has been installed. Although pricing is a key dimension in the hosting industry, research focusing on determining the factors that influence platform hosting industry pricing is quite sparse. The objective of this study is to identify which factors influence the pricing of the Airbnb offer in the city of Madrid, since Airbnb prices are related to the increase in residential rental prices and the gentrification of the cities. This is how 20 factors (explanatory variables) are analyzed through 4 categories: property attributes (4 variables), host attributes (2 variables), trust (7) and location (7). In addition, two different periods are analyzed, 2019, the date prior to the COVID-19 pandemic period, and which was also the year with the highest growth in tourism worldwide. The second period, 2022, the year in which the predictions for the growth of tourist flows are once again optimistic after the mobility restrictions caused by COVID-19 have been overcome worldwide. The results show that the specific characteristics of the home, the qualities of the accommodation, the online reviews along with the professional status and good reputation of the hosts explain most of the prices on Airbnb, which may be related to changes in the residential and tourist rental market, and with urban gentrification in some of the neighborhoods of the city of Madrid.

Alina Schoenberg (p), Pascal Mittermayer

Sotiris Folinas

In the recent years we have witnessed multiple examples in which discontent and feeling “left behind” surprisingly fast turned into aggressive “anti-system” demeanor. The explosiveness of this topic is depicted by the surge of populist party’s support in form of a non-hostile ballot box revolt and a fortiori, by attempted coup d'états, with the 2021 United States Capitol attack being one of the most recent and prominent examples of exploited dissatisfaction and frustration by populist pied pipers. While most of the international studies focus on either individual’s voting behaviour or national cross-country comparisons over time, a sub-national analysis elaborating on the spatial variation of the surge in populist parties’ support is oftentimes neglected. Therefore, this paper addresses the relationship between the FPÖ vote share at the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017 and 2019 as an expression of discontent and other underlying demographic and economic factors on a municipal
level. Through the application of spatial econometric tools, the correlation between these individual factors and the FPÖ’s electoral result, as well as the identification of spatial variations and patterns thereof, addresses this empirical void. While some factors leading to discontent in Austria confirm the findings from other discontent studies, this paper focuses on the effects of immigration and tourism on the populist vote in Austria. The results show, that a higher share
of foreigners, supplementary to a high level of employment in the tourism industry
per municipality, lead to lower electoral result for the FPÖ at the respective parliamentary elections implying an important role the tourism sector has for elections outcome.