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Este trabalho debruça-se sobre o Alojamento Local (AL) na cidade do Porto e sobre as práticas de Economia de Partilha e tem como principal objetivo perceber o que motiva os titulares de licenças de AL a aderirem ao negócio do arrendamento de curta duração. As entrevistas realizadas a oito titulares de licenças de AL permitiram a construção de retratos sociológicos que desvendaram os contextos da vida dos entrevistados, nos quais possa ter surgido as disposições para esta ação. Este processo revelou ser essencial para descobrimos quais as motivações que predominaram na decisão de aderir ao negócio do AL.
Antes de partirmos para dos casos individuais, fizemos uma breve análise sobre o fenómeno do AL na cidade do Porto. Desta análise concluiu-se que os contextos de partilha e as práticas de Economia de Partilha terão pouca expressão no AL portuense. Na cidade do Porto as unidades de AL são geridas como um negócio e os espaços têm como utilidade servir as necessidades daqueles que querem dormir na cidade, durante um curto período de tempo.
Relativamente às motivações daqueles que partilham espaços, a investigação teórica permitiu-nos concluir que estas se podem enquadrar em três principais grupos: económicas, sociais e ambientais. Estudos previamente realizados por Botsman e Rogers (2010) e Böcker e Meelen (2017) indicam que aqueles que partilham o seu espaço com pessoas desconhecidas, fazem-no movidos por motivações económicas, uma tendência confirmada no nosso estudo: as entrevistas realizadas confirmam que as motivações económicas são aquelas que têm mais peso na tomada de decisão de entrada no AL.
This thesis focuses on the analysis of the short-term rental market in Porto, as well as on Sharing Economy’s practices, and aims to understand what motivates landlords who possess such licenses of local accommodation to do it in the first place. The interviews with eight short-term rental licensees allowed the construction of sociological portraits that contextualize the interviewees’ life stories, and how these came to influence their disposition to live communally. This process proved to be essential in our research of what are the main motivations behind their embrace of the short-term rental phenomenon. Such a study of their motivations was preceded by a study of the short-term rental in Porto’s city. Here we concluded that the short-term rental in Porto isn’t greatly influenced by the Sharing Economy’s practices. In Porto, short-term rental units are run as a business and are meant to fulfil the needs of those who seek accommodation in the city for a short period of time. The theoretical investigation into the motivations of those who share places of accommodations, led us to conclude that these can assume one of three forms: economic, social and environmental. Studies by Botsman and Rogers (2010) and Bocker and Meelen (2017), had previously pointed to financial motivations as the source of the decisions to share spaces with strangers. The interviews supported this claim, as it pertains to the eight cases in question, which leads us to conclude that economic factors are those that weigh heaviest on the decision to enter into short-term renting of local accommodations.
This thesis focuses on the analysis of the short-term rental market in Porto, as well as on Sharing Economy’s practices, and aims to understand what motivates landlords who possess such licenses of local accommodation to do it in the first place. The interviews with eight short-term rental licensees allowed the construction of sociological portraits that contextualize the interviewees’ life stories, and how these came to influence their disposition to live communally. This process proved to be essential in our research of what are the main motivations behind their embrace of the short-term rental phenomenon. Such a study of their motivations was preceded by a study of the short-term rental in Porto’s city. Here we concluded that the short-term rental in Porto isn’t greatly influenced by the Sharing Economy’s practices. In Porto, short-term rental units are run as a business and are meant to fulfil the needs of those who seek accommodation in the city for a short period of time. The theoretical investigation into the motivations of those who share places of accommodations, led us to conclude that these can assume one of three forms: economic, social and environmental. Studies by Botsman and Rogers (2010) and Bocker and Meelen (2017), had previously pointed to financial motivations as the source of the decisions to share spaces with strangers. The interviews supported this claim, as it pertains to the eight cases in question, which leads us to conclude that economic factors are those that weigh heaviest on the decision to enter into short-term renting of local accommodations.
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Alojamento local Economia de partilha Motivações Retratos sociológicos Short-term rental Sharing economy Motivations Sociological portrait