Do airbnb host listing attributes influence room pricing homogenously?

被引:58
作者
Chattopadhyay, Manojit [1 ]
Mitra, Subrata Kumar [2 ]
机构
[1] Indian Inst Management Raipur, Decis Sci & Syst Area, Raipur 493661, CG, India
[2] Indian Inst Management Raipur, Finance Area, Raipur 493661, CG, India
关键词
Variable importance; Sharing economy; Peer-to-peer accommodation; Price determinants; Random forest; Decision tree; Amenities; Regional heterogeneity; Rental platform; Airbnb listing; Room pricing; Revenue management; SHARING ECONOMY; DETERMINANTS; SATISFACTION; REPUTATION; HOTELS; MARKET; RATES; WILLINGNESS; STRATEGIES; EXPERIENCE;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijhm.2019.03.008
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This research primarily contributes to the identification of the important variables that significantly influence room pricing on the Airbnb rental platform. The study adopted a comparative approach by using three different methods-OLS, random forest, and decision tree and applied it to a vast amount of data from the Airbnb listing dataset of 11 US cities. Each individual amenity mentioned in the listing in the textual format was used as an independent variable. We also added six other common listing variables to obtain interesting insights into the influence of these variables from the perspective of the host, guest; traveler, and tourist. Apart from identifying city-specific variable importance using different models, we estimated a composite score of variable importance that may be helpful to generalize the influence of amenities and other explanatory variables in the presence of any city-specific regional heterogeneity on the shared rental platform.
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页码:54 / 64
页数:11
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