Abstract
ABSTRACTThe role of accommodation-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb, is seen as a disruption to more conventional accommodation providers and rental markets in many cities and regions worldwide. This Regional Graphic focuses on New Zealand, showing a snapshot in time of the spatial distribution of the accommodation provided by Airbnb. What the map shows are patterns of statistically significant mildly positive clustering (Moran's I = 0.33, p ≤ 0.05) of the Airbnb locations. The ‘traditional’ tourism hotspots, mainly in the South Island of New Zealand, for example, Wanaka or Queenstown (Queenstown Hill, Lake Hayes South, Sunshine Bay), and the largest city, Auckland (Central West, East, Habourside and Waiheke Island), are shown. A few of the highest ranked places also feature a high intensity per usually resident person. For example, Queenstown Hill has 204 Airbnb listings per 1000 residents. The area with the highest number of Airbnbs is Wanaka, a smaller South Island tourist destination. A key issue for future research is how short-term rentals pose a challenge to local authorities who collect property taxes based on the value of the property, with some local authorities (e.g., Auckland) proposing or enacting specific by-laws in relation to Airbnb.
Highlights
With its strong regional representation of Airbnbs, exhibits a hybrid of both a well-recognized inner-urban phenomenon (Gurran & Phibbs, 2017; Wegmann & Jiao, 2017) and the experience of places with a high level of tourism provision, such as Barcelona in Spain (Gutierrez et al, 2017)
Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand 141 the accommodation provided through this platform and connecting Airbnb data to census data to provide context
This allows us to connect it to information about individuals, areas and households from the most recent census in New Zealand undertaken in 2013
Summary
With its strong regional representation of Airbnbs, exhibits a hybrid of both a well-recognized inner-urban phenomenon (Gurran & Phibbs, 2017; Wegmann & Jiao, 2017) and the experience of places with a high level of tourism provision, such as Barcelona in Spain (Gutierrez et al, 2017). Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand 141 the accommodation provided through this platform and connecting Airbnb data to census data to provide context. In order to allow such a comparison and visualize the scale of the regional variations in accommodation provided, we have aggregated the address locations of the Airbnb data to match the geographical boundaries of the New Zealand census.
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