In the past several years,sharing economy in tourism reveals a rapid growth rate. The purpose of this research was to investigate tourists’ motivations for using Tujia and to classify them accordingly. The study involved an online survey and an online review text crawling. The survey was completed in the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 by 295 tourists who had stayed in Tujia accommodation during the previous 12 months. Python was used to crawl data from Tujia website. Aggregate results indicated that respondents were most strongly attracted to Tujia by its practical attributes, and somewhat less so by its experiential attributes. The exploratory factor analysis identified five motivating factors—Function, Home Benefits, Authenticity, Novelty and Sharing Economy Ethos. A subsequent cluster analysis divided the respondents into five segments—Money Sensitives, Home Seekers, Collaborative Consumers, Pragmatic Socialization Seekers, and Socializing Novelty Seekers. Profiling of the segments revealed numerous distinctive characteristics. Various practical and conceptual implications of the findings are discussed.