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Touristification is a process by which a place changes as it becomes an object of Tourism consumption. It leads to negative implications for the touristified place and has received both informal and formal opposition.
Mild touristification by means of alternative tourism in rural areas and indigenous territories has been promoted by countries like Mexico as a development strategy that can be integrated with environmental conservation.
In the peer-to-peer rental market, individuals can occasionally rent out the homes in which they live through a platform such as Airbnb. However, these platforms have been criticised for allowing investors and landlords to set up permanent holiday rentals in homes which would otherwise form part of the local housing stock. This is a form of gentrification, as local city dwellers are displaced from their homes (or districts) to cater for the needs of affluent (in this case, transient and mobile) people. Lestégas refers to districts which have become dominated by holiday rentals as airbnbarrios.
The production of a short-term rental housing market in cities became pivotal in the early 2000s. This came about due to the increasing importance of digital technologies in the economy, and a drive by capital to extract more value from the city.
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