An Analysis of the Changing Competitive Landscape

This book is an analysis of the competitive environment between the hotel industry and Airbnb an Online Vacation Rental Platform (OVRP) in San Francisco. Airbnb is an internet platform that facilitates hosts to rent shared space a private room or an entire home. Airbnb is growing and currently has over 1M listings in 34000 cities and 190 countries globally. The focus of this research to identify the competition within the San Francisco market including data from the hotel and OVRP industry New York City NY Los Angeles CA and USA. This study identifies and reviews the tangible and intangible affects Airbnb has on the hotel industry hospitality workers renters neighborhoods and the city and state revenues for transient occupancy taxes (TOT) and other taxes.