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Abstract
In the light of the debate on the growth of visitor numbers to city destinations and the sociocultural footprint of urban tourists, the spatial distribution of urban vacation rentals is a key question: does 'sharing', as Airbnb has claimed, spread visitors to peripheral neighbourhoods and contribute to decreasing the congestion in traditional tourist hotspots? Or does it, on the contrary, worsen this congestion problem, with its consequences for the perception of tourism by residents, in traditional tourist centres? This article analyses the spatial concentration of Airbnb listings in 26 European cities in terms of a distance decay from a central point. Besides the concentration of the offer, it studies the decay of business performance according to the distance from the city centre. The study finds an exponential decay for the number of listings. There is a strong effect on financial performance and a more limited effect on rental performance. While several single city studies show that Airbnb, instead of spreading tourism to neighbourhoods, led to greater concentration, these findings show that these were not incidental excesses but a common development pattern for Airbnb. Implications are that the authenticity sought by Airbnb users is not the same as the search for an unspoilt neighbourhood life. Furthermore, it means that benevolent policies towards urban vacation rentals, aimed at spreading tourism, are based on a false assumption.

La literatura social-realista de los cincuenta ha dado origen a un número de puntos de vista polémicos, muchos centralizados en la compatibilidad de los valores estéticos y los compromisos sociales. La investigación sobre la censura franquista en los años más recientes, muestra cómo los efectos de la censura en las creaciones literarias y en los medios de comunicación eran más complejos y decisivos de lo pudiera parecer. Es necesario reconsiderar ciertos aspectos en la génesis del social-realismo teniendo en cuenta una paradójica situación en la que en la que la conciencia social tenía que alcanzarse con otros medios que los que provenían de una cultura manipulada rígidamente. El desarrollo de la censura y de las ideologías toleradas oficialmente pudo arrojar una nueva luz en el difícil proceso de reconstruir esta conciencia social. ; The social-realist literature of the fifties has given rise to a number of polemical points of view, many of them focussed on the compatibility of aesthetical values and social engagement. Research on censorship in more recent years has shown that the effects of governmental censorship on literary creation and on mass media were much more complex than we believed. It is therefore necessary to reconsider certain aspects in the genesis of social realism, taking into account a paradoxical situation in which social consciousness had to be reached by no other means, practically, than those provided by a rigidly manipulated culture. The development of censorship and officially tolerated ideologies can throw a new light on the painful process of reconstructing this social consciousness. ; notPeerReviewed