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Abstract
This study examines how amenities shape revenue performance in short-term rental (STR) markets by moving beyond additive feature models towards a configurational perspective. Using robust linear modelling on 14,630 Airbnb listings in regional Western Australia (2022–2024), the analysis tests both individual amenity effects and amenity complementarities. Results show that autonomy-enabling and niche-signalling amenities, such as kitchens and pet-friendliness, are positively associated with revenue, while some amenities, notably pools, reduce revenue when offered in isolation. Interestingly, interaction effects reveal that specific amenity bundles–particularly pool × pet-friendliness and kitchen × parking–generate synergistic value that exceeds the sum of individual effects. These findings demonstrate that amenity value is contingent on configuration and use-context alignment rather than feature accumulation. The study advances short-term rental research by empirically establishing amenity complementarity as a mechanism of value formation in platform-mediated accommodation markets and by challenging dominant additive approaches to modelling STR performance.
Keywords
Airbnb, amenities, service-dominant logic, short-term rentals, signalling theory
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
1-1-2026
ISSN
02508281
Publication Title
Tourism Recreation Research
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
School
School of Business and Law
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Ndaguba, E., Brown, K., & Mavi, N. K. (2026). Understanding amenities in peer-to-peer accommodation platform: A moderation analysis. Tourism Recreation Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2026.2640401