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Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study:

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In this paper, the authors investigate tourists' motivations for using Airbnb and find that the majority of tourists use the service for short-term stays. But they do not consider the long-term use of the service.
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Airbnb has grown very rapidly over the past several years, with millions of tourists having used the service. The purpose of this study was to investigate tourists’ motivations for using Airbnb and...

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What do Airbnb users care about? An analysis of online review comments

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the attributes that influence Airbnb users' experiences by analyzing a set of online review comments through the process of text mining and sentiment analysis, finding that Airbnb users tend to evaluate their experience based on a frame of reference derived from past hotel stays.
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Motivations and constraints of Airbnb consumers: Findings from a mixed-methods approach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a conceptual model integrating the literature and findings of a qualitative study and subsequently tested the model via a national survey, finding that, for motivations, price value, enjoyment, and home benefits significantly explain overall attitude toward Airbnb.
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Consumer segmentation within the sharing economy: The case of Airbnb

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed methods approach, with both a quantitative survey and a qualitative content analysis of Airbnb listings, was used to compare two different types of accommodation offered on Airbnb: shared room and entire home.
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Platforms in the peer-to-peer sharing economy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine peer-to-peer sharing platform business models, their sources of competitive advantage, and the roles, motivations and behaviors of key actors in their ecosystems, using a conceptual approach rooted in the service, tourism and hospitality, and strategy literature.
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Regulating Airbnb: how cities deal with perceived negative externalities of short-term rentals

TL;DR: In recent years, home-sharing platform Airbnb has developed into a major player in the tourism sector, allowing tourists to have authentic, off-the-beaten-track experiences in neighbourhoods previ...
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TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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A Simple Sequentially Rejective Multiple Test Procedure

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple and widely accepted multiple test procedure of the sequentially rejective type is presented, i.e. hypotheses are rejected one at a time until no further rejections can be done.
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Multivariate Data Analysis

Xianggui Qu
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TL;DR: This book deals with probability distributions, discrete and continuous densities, distribution functions, bivariate distributions, means, variances, covariance, correlation, and some random process material.
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Why Tourists Choose Airbnb: A Motivation-Based Segmentation Study?

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Why tourist choose Airbnb: A motivation-based segmentation study?

The paper investigates tourists' motivations for using Airbnb, but it does not provide a specific answer to why tourists choose Airbnb.