Anna Farmaki & Dimitri Ioannides 
Peer-to-peer Accommodation and Community Resilience 
Implications for Sustainable Development

The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon has yielded several concerns over its potentially negative economic, social and environmental impacts.

These impacts are highlighted in policy agendas as an emerging problem encountered by many local communities in destinations experiencing a boom in P2P accommodation. Specifically, concerns have been raised over the impact of the growth of P2P accommodation on local housing markets, residents’ well-being and the environment as a result of the touristification of residential areas. In fact, many observers accuse P2P accommodation of fuelling the ‘overtourism’ problem that several destinations face.

This edited book addresses the need to examine the P2P accommodation phenomenon from a community resilience lens. In particular, through a collection of chapters presenting a range of empirical and conceptual perspectives from urban and rural communities, the book considers the implications of P2P accommodation growth on the resilience of local communities and the sustainable development of places.

This book highlights:
· The rapid growth of P2P accommodation yields economic, social and environmental negative impacts on destinations.
· The P2P accommodation sector is evolving towards professionalization which, in turns, creates further implications for local community resilience.
· This book draws attention towards the need to examine the nexus between P2P accommodation, sustainability and local community resilience.
· The collection of chapters presents empirical and conceptual perspectives from urban and rural communities.
· Chapters impart significant insights to policymakers, practitioners and academics in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Stella Kladou is a Postdoc researcher at the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Crete, Greece. She has served as an Assistant Professor in the Tourism Administration Department at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey and a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Her Ph D in ‘Evaluating Cultural City Brands: The case of Athens, Istanbul and Rome’, was realized in cooperation with the Hellenic Open University in Greece, Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey and the University of Rome La Sapienza in Italy, and partially funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. She has published in prominent academic journals and books of international publishers, and presented at well-esteemed international conferences. She has participated and/or led several international and national projects as a researcher or consultant. She is an International Place Brand Specialist for the Place Brand Observer, and in the scientific and editorial board of international conferences and the Journal of Qualitative Research in Tourism respectively. Her research mainly pertains to place branding, cultural and wine tourism, and digital marketing.