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Potential impacts of P2P acommodation on Rural-mountain areas. A case study from the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain).
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This paper seeks to contribute to existing literature by exploring the potential impacts of Peer-to-Peer (p2p) accommodation on a rural mountain area in the Pyrenees in Catalonia (Spain). The results indicate how widely p2p accommodation can penetrate areas of this kind. The findings suggest that this phenomenon has brought few benefits for local development and has created severe competition for conventional tourism accommodation, despite having a smaller economic impact in terms of job creation and tourist spending. In addition, the relative ease with which it avoids administrative and fiscal controls has negative repercussions for the tax revenues of local authorities. The growth in tourist rental properties is also having harmful effects on the study area in terms of its tourist load capacity, and the high pressure it puts on housing stock is causing shortages in residential housing and sharp price increases.
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GÓMEZ MARTÍN, Belén, ARMESTO LÓPEZ, Xosé Antón and CORS I IGLESIAS, Martí. Potential impacts of P2P acommodation on Rural-mountain areas. A case study from the Catalan Pyrenees (Spain). Erdkunde: Journal of Human and Physical Geography. 2021. Vol. 75, num. 2, pags. 139-162. ISSN 0014-0015. [consulted: 17 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/227915