Tourist Accommodation as a Special Type of Accommodation in Tourism

Abstract

Residential premises used for the tourist accommodation and temporary accommodation along with traditional accommodation facilities (hotels, hostels, etc.) form the infrastructure of tourist accommodation. The lack of a unified approach to the designation of these premises in international and Russian regulatory documents leads to the fact that different terminology is used in scientific and business turnover. A critical analysis of the terms allowed the author to identify three approaches to the designation of residential premises used for the tourist accommodation and temporary residence, which emphasize the contemporary aspects of the functioning of residential premises used for the tourist accommodation and temporary residence. Firstly, these residential premises are considered as facilities, objects of tourist accommodation, that is, «regularly or occasionally providing places for overnight stops», secondly, they are considered as residential premises, and thirdly, they are referred to as «airbnb objects», since most of these objects are presented on online booking platforms [1; 2]. The involvement of residential premises in the tourism sector allows us to speak about a special type of accommodation facilities for tourists for which the author proposes to use the term «tourist accommodation».