Collaborative Consumption Impact on Tourism Growth and Sustainable City Development

Collaborative consumption (CC) is discussed in terms of its role in the implementation of sustainable development goals. The objective of the paper is to present the role of collaborative consumption in tourism growth and the sustainable cities development. The purpose of the article was achieved as the result of review and critical analysis method application (especially in the course of the first and second stage of the study) and SALSA method application (at all stages). The deduction and research results synthesis methods were also applied. The paper presents the nature of collaborative consumption and the impact of CC platforms on the raise of tourism traffic (using the example of Airbnb as the biggest player on the accommodation sparing market). Further, the views of different researchers on the idea of sustainable city are presented as well as its interpretation in the light of Agenda 2030. Deliberating tasks of Agenda 2030 connected with sustainable cities, the paper attempts to describe directions of impact of CC in tourism on sustainable development of cities. The conclusion part offers the pack of the most important features of collaborative consumption in tourism for sustainable city development.