Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality
Andriotis, Konstantinos 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0960-0216 and Agiomirgianakis, George
(2014)
Market escape through exchange: home swap as a form of non-commercial hospitality.
Current Issues in Tourism, 17
(7)
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pp. 576-591.
ISSN 1368-3500
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(doi:10.1080/13683500.2013.837868)
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine home swap - a form of non-commercial hospitality that has witnessed a great expansion in the last decade. In conjunction with prior writings on various subjects related to home swap, this study can be utilized in compiling a preliminary conceptualization of home swapping, as a form of non-commercial hospitality, with its own characteristics. In particular this study identifies six dimensions of home swap, namely (a) escape of the market; (b) asymmetric exchanges (c) need for trustiness; (d) use of a hospitality exchange network; (e) demand for domesticity and (f) quest to experience local authenticity. The results of this study are being utilized to construct a preliminary conceptualization of home swapping as a distinct vacation alternative building on old virtues and using new technology.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Published online: 27 Sep 2013 |
| Keywords (uncontrolled): | exchange, alternative non-market economies, market escape, authenticity, domesticity, home swap |
| Research Areas: | A. > Business School > Marketing, Branding and Tourism |
| Item ID: | 13241 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Current Issues in Tourism, on 27/09/2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13683500.2013.837868 |
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| Depositing User: | Konstantinos Andriotis |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2014 05:19 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2021 22:20 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/13241 |
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