Peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation concerns economic transactions that involve people’s private territory. To provide a fresh perspective on P2P accommodation, this article emphasizes the territorial complexity in such accommodation and proposes to understand guest experience through the lens of human territoriality. Following an interpretative phenomenological approach, this article examined the lived experiences of Airbnb guests. Results suggest that P2P accommodation guests could possess two territorial senses simultaneously: a sense of being in their own territory and of being in others’ territory. Themes related to hosts’ territorial behaviors and guests’ reactions to host territoriality were also identified. Findings of this article highlight the relevance of human territoriality in P2P accommodation and provide novel insights for guest experience research.
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