Includes bibliographical references and index.

The shifting spatial logic of tourism in networked hospitality / Antonio Paolo Russo & Alan Quaglieri Domínguez -- Authority & Authorship : uncovering the socio-technical regimes of peer-to-peer tourism / Paula Bialski -- Ethical travel : holidaying to fight the Italian Mafia / Francesca Forno & Roberta Garibaldi -- The "Diffuse Hotel" : an Italian new model of sustainable hospitality / Monica Gilli & Sonia Ferrari -- The co-creation of urban tourism experiences / Ilaria Pappalepore & Andrew Smith -- "Get local" : ICT, tourism and community place making in Auckland, New Zealand / Simon Milne, Carolyn Deuchar & Karin Peters -- (Dis)engaging the loca l: Backpackers' usage of social media during crises / Cody Morris Paris & Kevin Hannam -- Re-thinking host-guest relationships in the context of urban ethnic tourism / Melanie Smith & Anita Ztori -- Place-making or place-faking? : The paradoxical effects of transnational circulation of architectural and urban development projects / Davide Ponzini, Stefan Fotev and Francesca Mavaracchio -- Hostels and the making of new urban spaces / Greg Richards -- Between Translation and Reinterpretation : What is Local in Barcelona's Foodsphere? / Elsa Soro -- Unravelling Airbnb : Urban perspectives from Barcelona / Albert Arias Sans & Alan Quaglieri Domínguez -- Urban Resistance Tourism Initiatives in Stressed Cities : The case of Athens Dimitri Ioannides, Panos Leventis & Evangelia Petridou -- Synthesis and conclusions : towards a new geography of tourism? / Greg Richards & Antonio Paolo Russo.

This book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have new opportunities to experience the community at their destination. This book examines these place experiences and travel-sharing arrangements that have now spread globally due to the use of social communication platforms such as Airbnb. It analyses the existence of global communities of 'place experts' that are redefining the organisational structures, value systems, market opportunities, affordabilities and geographies in travel and tourism. This volume brings together the work of established tourism scholars as well as early career researchers and is one of the first books to examine the global-local relationship at tourism destinations and the way that the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism is transforming tourist destinations.