Abstract
Airbnb is a tourist phenomenon that jeopardizes Lima's hotel industry, while at the same time boosting tourism in the city. This tourist accommodation sector attracts millions of people under a discourse of familiarity, accessibility and a sense of belonging. To this respect, the hosts at Airbnb are in charge of generating highly persuasive discourses through a series of discursive strategies. The data is made up of 108 discursive samples of Lima's hosts from each of the 8 most touristic districts of the city, which have been collected from the Airbnb platform. In this study, it is concluded that the hosts appeal to mechanisms that highlight the proximity of the places of interest, the historical and cultural elements that they possess, and the experience in the field, as well as their own origin, hobbies, academic or professional career and family life.
Translated title of the contribution | Collaborative tourism and their discursive strategies: The case of Airbnb's hosts in Lima-Peru |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 119-132 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Circulo de Linguistica Aplicada a la Comunicacion |
Volume | 83 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Este artículo ha sido elaborado en el marco del VIII Concurso Anual de Incentivo a la Investigación-2020 de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), código A-216-2020. Agradecemos el apoyo que nos brindó el Área de Humanidades para su promoción.
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