Where is tourist housing actually located? New approaches and sources for detailed scale analysis

Abstract

This article deals with the distribution of tourist housing in cities. Its main objective is to show new data and methods to more precisely locate tourist housing; to that end, four indicators of the concentration of tourist housing are proposed on a detailed scale and applied to Seville, Spain. This approach should enable future studies to achieve a more detailed analysis of the phenomenon’s real effects on the resident population. Regarding the current health crisis, it presents an accurate picture of the situation before the COVID19 pandemic and will be a perfect departure point for following the progress of the analysed phenomenon both during and after the crisis in the forthcoming work. The results obtained clearly represent a qualitative advance over previous literature in various aspects: (a) the new tourist housing sources used to avoid the location errors of the usually available data sources (i.e. Inside AirBnb); (b) combined usage of this tourist housing source with new spatial references (cadastral data) enables more precise localization of individual tourist housing; and (c) combined usage of these two data sources (tourist housing and cadastral units) enables the extraction of new and detailed indicators regarding the distribution and concentration of tourist housing.