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\u201cThe introduction of budget airfares and Airbnb has completely changed travel patterns: many tourists are now travelling in large groups of family and friends, and they want to stay together on their holiday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re part of an Australian family visiting Bali, for example, you might not want to constrain yourself by booking different rooms in a hotel. Instead, you might want to book out an entire house on Airbnb and split the cost between family members, which will be much cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his research, Nusantara will interview Australians and Indonesians about their international Airbnb experiences as well as trialling tourist accommodation himself. His research will be supported with a Research Training Program Stipend scholarship and supervised by Professor Christof Pforr and Dr Michael Volgger from Curtin\u2019s Tourism Research Cluster<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pforr and Volgger have expertise in the sharing economy, having investigated the effect of Airbnb on the WA tourism sector<\/a> as part of a 2017 Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre report.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an Indonesian living in Australia, Aji is perfectly positioned to look at the Airbnb phenomenon from a cross-cultural point of view,\u201d Volgger says.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s adding a valuable international dimension to our ongoing work on the sharing economy and Airbnb.\u201d<\/p>\n Nusantara says he is proud to be studying at Curtin University.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to study at a university ranked in the top one percent in the world<\/a> and that was in close proximity to both Indonesia and Australia.<\/p>\n \u201cMy supervisors are really pushing me to dig beneath the surface with my research.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n