Investigating the impact of pandemics on the development of the sharing economy (case study: eva‎luation of the Covid 19 pandemics on the sharing economy in Iran's tourism industry)

9/6/2023 12:00:00 AM

The world today is facing numerous crises in the modern era, which strongly affects our production and consumption methods. The epidemic of Covid-19 has put most of the sectors of organizations at risk, especially the service sectors, including the hotel industry and tourism. The impact of Covid-19 on tourism businesses is very complex, and the severity of these adverse effects and the channels of its impact in this area are not the same in different tourism destination countries, and according to the type of tourism common in tourism destination countries, the extent of this impact It has been different. Especially in the shared tourism sector, which these days has seen a significant increase all over the world, and of course in our country, with a focus on shared platforms. Therefore, the main goal of the current research is to explain and describe the consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic on businesses based on the sharing economy in the tourism sector in our country. This research is developmental-applied in terms of purpose, in terms of data, it is exploratory mixed (causal) and in terms of its nature, it is a cross-sectional survey that this type of research is directed towards the practical application of knowledge and the results obtained in order to solve the problem. . However, in this research, a combination of two parts, qualitative and quantitative, has been used. For this purpose, 11 policymakers and academic experts took action in the first step to examine the extracted basic themes. The theme analysis method was used for the analysis and finally we got 72 basic themes and 5 overarching themes. Finally, the development of the sharing economy in the tourism sector, under the influence of the spread of Covid-19, was eva‎luated and the results were reported in relation to the five factors of technological infrastructure, cultural-social factors, political-environmental factors, economic factors and managerial factors.

اقتصاد اشتراكي , همه گيري كوويد 19 , مديريت بحران , گردشگري , پلتفرم

Sharing economy , Covid-19 pandemic , crisis management , tourism , platform

Saman Roohbakhshan

Dr. Saeed Shavvalpour