The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective

Although the literature of peer-to-peer accommodation is increasingly recognizing the importance of home feeling, little has been done to theorize the construction of home feeling and its impacts on Airbnb guests’ future intention. To fill in this gap, this study systematically unpacked how Airbnb g...

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Main Authors: Zhu, Y., Cheng, Mingming, Wang, J., Ma, L., Jiang, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73672
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author Zhu, Y.
Cheng, Mingming
Wang, J.
Ma, L.
Jiang, R.
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Cheng, Mingming
Wang, J.
Ma, L.
Jiang, R.
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description Although the literature of peer-to-peer accommodation is increasingly recognizing the importance of home feeling, little has been done to theorize the construction of home feeling and its impacts on Airbnb guests’ future intention. To fill in this gap, this study systematically unpacked how Airbnb guests construct the feeling of home. A total of 42,085 review comments containing the feeling of home from three major cities in the USA were analyzed from a semantics perspective. Based on our findings we conceptualize home feeling as a PASS_h process, which contains multiple dimensions: physical and spatial, social, and affective, coupled with hospitality. Essentially, the home feeling with the interaction of these dimensions fulfills the daily hybrid needs of the guests.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-736722019-07-31T06:38:00Z The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective Zhu, Y. Cheng, Mingming Wang, J. Ma, L. Jiang, R. Although the literature of peer-to-peer accommodation is increasingly recognizing the importance of home feeling, little has been done to theorize the construction of home feeling and its impacts on Airbnb guests’ future intention. To fill in this gap, this study systematically unpacked how Airbnb guests construct the feeling of home. A total of 42,085 review comments containing the feeling of home from three major cities in the USA were analyzed from a semantics perspective. Based on our findings we conceptualize home feeling as a PASS_h process, which contains multiple dimensions: physical and spatial, social, and affective, coupled with hospitality. Essentially, the home feeling with the interaction of these dimensions fulfills the daily hybrid needs of the guests. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73672 10.1016/j.annals.2018.12.013 Elsevier restricted
spellingShingle Zhu, Y.
Cheng, Mingming
Wang, J.
Ma, L.
Jiang, R.
The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title_full The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title_fullStr The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title_full_unstemmed The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title_short The construction of home feeling by Airbnb guests in the sharing economy: A semantics perspective
title_sort construction of home feeling by airbnb guests in the sharing economy: a semantics perspective
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73672