scholarly journals BOOKING TRAVEL THROUGH THE AIRBNB PLATFORM DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (30 (1)) ◽  
pp. 151-155
Author(s):  
Elena Stiubea
Keyword(s):  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Job Stability ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Losses

The collaborative economy, even if it has moulded well in the tourism market and has developed surprisingly, has been a controversial field from the very beginning, especially as it does not take place within a very well regulated legislative framework. The outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic severely destabilized all industries, but among the most vulnerable to it was tourism. Not much is known yet about the impact of COVID 19 on traditional sectors, let alone studies or analyses of how the pandemic has affected non-traditional peer-to-peer accommodation. This article attempts a brief analysis of how people have booked or canceled their trips through the Airbnb platform since the beginning of the pandemic. The results show that the sharpest decline was recorded in April 2020 when the number of bookings fell by 72%, compared to the same period in 2019. In the summer months, when most people plan their vacation, the bookings were not numerous, but they kept a certain stability. Compared to June-September 2019, bookings in 2020, during the same period, decreased by 20%. The pandemic has hit this sector hard, especially as all pre-pandemic forecasts showed significant increases in peer-to-peer accommodation between 2020 and 2025 and therefore increases in overall revenue as a result of bookings. This study shows that peer-to-peer accommodation is just as vulnerable to such a pandemic as traditional accommodation. Providers need to rethink their offer in order to reduce financial losses and at the same time protect their employees and provide them with job stability. It can be seen that the cancellations and alterations of the services booked through Airbnb increased exponentially after the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic because people could no longer travel from one place to another and even if certain journeys were allowed, people were afraid or felt uncomfortable taking trips.

Land Records Modernisation: Maharashtra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepika Jha ◽  
Varun Panickar ◽  
Dipankar Das
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Land Records

During 2017–2020, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements conducted a series of primary and secondary studies on land record modernisation initiatives in five states and union territories of India. Based on extensive on-ground research, this work is part of a five-volume set that presents findings from Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, with a focus on urban land and property records and the associated complexities. This volume on Maharashtra brings out the impact of having a historically enshrined system of maintaining property records even in urban areas, created via city surveys. The state also has a supporting legislative framework, which has enabled capturing some details of vertical property, although in a fragmented and decentralised manner.

Methodological provisions for assessing scientific and technical risk and financial losses during development works to create complex technical systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 1933-1950
Author(s):  
Nikolai V. FIROV ◽  
Sergei A. SOROKIN
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Technical Risk ◽  
Complex Technical Systems ◽  
Technical Systems ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management ◽  
Financial Losses

Subject. The article addresses scientific and technical risk and financial losses of the customer in the process of research and development works on the creation of complex technical systems. Objectives. The study aims at constructing and analyzing the dependence of scientific and technical risk and financial losses of the customer on the planned volume of development works and the financial resources invested in them. Methods. We apply methods of probability theory and mathematical statistics, system and regression analysis, risk assessment and management. The paper rests on data on completed development projects for complex technical systems creation. Results. We formulated methodological provisions for assessing scientific and technical risk, arising in the process of development works on complex technical systems. The paper presents an algorithm for calculating the expected financial losses from works implementation. The problem of minimizing financial losses associated with scientific and technical risk is formulated and formalized. The feasibility of proposed provisions and recommendations is confirmed by a practical example. Conclusions. To assess risks, it is important to consider the impact of the degree of difference between the main characteristics of developed product and its prototype on the required amount of works at development stage. This enables to build regression dependencies of the volume of works at the development stage on a specified factor, which are later used to assess the scientific and technical risk and associated financial losses.

scholarly journals The Managing of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Technologies’ Network Effect: An Adaptation of Actor-Network Theory

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Kobra Elahifar
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Network Effect ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
P2p File Sharing ◽  
The Impact

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technologies have impacted the music industry, including its strategies for the distribution of the musical products, for more than a decade now. As a result, music labels have delayed full digitization of their industry in fear of “online music piracy”. The present paper reviews the historical context of the evolution of the music industry from 1999 to 2012. Using Actor-Network theory, the paper examines the strategies that helped the music industry to translate new actors’ effect in order to sustain music labels’ business on their path to digitize music distribution. I will discuss the impact of new digital policies and methods of governing online behavior including the business concept of “entrepreneurship” as they may potentially affect the future of public domain within the framework of consumer rights.

scholarly journals Application of Urban Geology in Construction Projects (Case Study: Urban Geology of Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, Iran)

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajad Afzali ◽  
Faezeh Taheri Sarmad ◽  
Mojtaba Heidari ◽  
Seyed Hossein Jalali
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Urban Geology ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Horizontal Acceleration ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Financial Losses

Urban geology is a preliminary study for the construction and development of cities, which has been more prominent in recent decades in some countries despite its long application history. It assesses the impact of geological and natural phenomena on urban space and available structures. The earthquake on Nov. 21, 2017, inflicted a lot of damage to the city of Sarpol-e Zahab, west of Iran, including financial losses and casualties. Reconstruction of this city and planning for its sustainable development entail conducting urban geological studies. In the present study, the effect of natural phenomena on Sarpol-e Zahab County was studied by investigating its geology and geomorphology. The results showed that, in addition to the earthquake that habitually affected the city of Sarpol-e Zahab, the hazards of other phenomena are also significant. Recorded horizontal acceleration in the recent earthquake confirmed the high seismicity of Sarpol-e Zahab has.

scholarly journals Ways to increase the attractiveness of investment and construction projects in the Irkutsk region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Мария Матвеева
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Industrial Construction ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Construction Integration ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Stimulation Of

The article deals with the main directions of solving the problem of insufficient investment attractiveness of industrial construction in the Irkutsk region. A lot of research is devoted to the improvement of investment attractiveness and competitiveness of construction projects. Investments are considered not only as a source for economic growth, but also as a factor of competitiveness of regional economy and construction. The article highlights the main problems and prospects of development to raise the investment attractiveness of regional construction projects. The author has reviewed the impact of investment attractiveness on the formation of con-competitive advantages of a territory. Increasing the investment attractiveness of industrial construction can be achieved through the implementation of a set of measures providing for: the development of the regulatory and legislative framework governing investment relations in construction; improvement of the organizational and economic mechanism, including tools for managing investment projects in industrial construction; integration of programs of the state support and stimulation of creation of industrial parks, construction of objects of infrastructure, engineering preparation in borders of the land plot allocated for building.

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