Non-hosting residents’ emotional solidarity with peer-to-peer accommodation hosts

ABSTRACTResearchers have yet to examine emotional solidarity (ES) shared between residents and peer-to-peer accommodation (P2PA) hosts. Data collected from a survey of 325 residents in Savannah, GA shows ES to have a direct effect on the perceptions of the positive and negative impacts of P2PAs and that ES’s influence on support for ES is mediated through these perceived impacts. This suggests the importance of having P2PA hosts living in the community where residents can get to know them and understand the importance of the P2PA to the host’s income and quality of life.KEYWORDS: Peer-to-peer accommodations (P2PAs)3motional solidarityAirbnbshort-term vacation rentals Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).