Tourist apartments, Covid-19, and platform capitalism

Authors

  • Agustín Cocola-Gant Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3395-4233

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis20187

Abstract

To understand how the short-term rental market is responding to the pandemic, we need to analyse how this market has been reorganized in recent years. This text is based on the study we carried out of this market in Portugal within the scope of the SMART OUR project, and highlights two fundamental points. The first is to grasp the flexibility and control over the property that this market offers to owners and investors. The second point is the rise of short-term rental management agencies and how they position themselves in the current digital platform capitalism. The text explains how these aspects allow property owners to speculate on assets for a few months while waiting for the tourist market to come back, which means an increase of the vulnerability of tenants like never before to the point that housing loses its social function.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2021-08-05

How to Cite

Cocola-Gant, A. . (2021). Tourist apartments, Covid-19, and platform capitalism. Finisterra, 55(115), 211–216. https://doi.org/10.18055/Finis20187

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 115 (2020): Special number: COVID-19

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Finisterra

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

  1. Authors are responsible for the opinions expressed in the texts submitted to Finisterra.

  2. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

  3. Authors must commit to complying with the “Guidelines for article submission”, on the RCAAP platform.

  4. Whenever a text may require amendments based on suggestions made by the Scientific Reviewers and/or the Executive Committee, authors must agree to accept these suggestions and implement the requested changes. If authors disagree with any of the amendments suggested, they will need to provide justifications for each individual case.

  5. Reproduction of materials liable to copyright laws has been granted permission in advance.

  6. Texts are original, unpublished and have not been submitted to other journals.

License URL CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (BY-NC-ND)