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'''Hospitality Club''' (HC) |
'''Hospitality Club''' (HC) is a [[hospitality exchange service]] accessible via a website. The platform is a [[gift economy]]; hosts are not allowed to charge for [[lodging]] and are also not obligated to host.<ref name=noobligation/> Hospitality Club implemented a [[reputation system]], whereby members can leave references.<ref>{{cite book |last1=LAINE |first1=NINA |title=Trust in Superior-Subordinate Relationship: An empirical study in the context of learning |date=2008 |url=https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/66404/978-951-44-7418-7.pdf?sequence=1 |access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref>{{BCN|date=February 2022}} For added safety, members are encouraged to check each other's passports, although it rarely happens.<ref name=top10/> |
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==History== |
==History== |
Revision as of 18:28, 27 March 2022
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Area served | Global |
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Owner | Veit Kühne |
Founder(s) | Veit Kühne |
Products | Homestay |
Services | Social networking service |
URL | www |
Launched | July 11, 2000 |
Part of a series on |
Homestays |
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Hospitality exchange services |
Hospitality for work |
Hospitality for money |
Home exchange and others |
Hospitality Club (HC) is a hospitality exchange service accessible via a website. The platform is a gift economy; hosts are not allowed to charge for lodging and are also not obligated to host.[1] Hospitality Club implemented a reputation system, whereby members can leave references.[2][better source needed] For added safety, members are encouraged to check each other's passports, although it rarely happens.[3]
History
Hospitality Club was founded in July 2000 in Koblenz.[3][4]
In 2005 disagreement between some members of Hospitality Club and its founder led to the foundation of BeWelcome.[5] Many HC members, who become distinguished volunteers within Couchsurfing (so-called CS ambassadors), left HC towards CS because of its missing legal status and insufficient management transparency.[6]
In February 2006, Kühne was working full-time on Hospitality Club.[7] In the spring 2006, the thitherto biggest HC-Party took place in Riga counting 430 participants from 36 countries.[8] As of July 2006, the site had 155,000 members.[9] This number grew by a ca. 1,000 new members a week in 2006.[8]
In 2007, Google Trends search volume for hospitalityclub.org started to decline and was overtaken by the search volume for CouchSurfing.[10] In 2007, HC's specified goals have been to facilitate "intercultural understanding ... bringing people together ... travelers and locals".[11]
In 2013, HC had more than a half of million members from 200 countries.[1]
External links
- A podcast about hospitality club on German RTL
References
- ^ a b Локша, Анна Владимировна (2013). "О необходимости повышения социальной составляющей молодежного туризма в России". Телескоп: Журнал Социологических И Маркетинговых Исследований (in Russian) (5). ISSN 1994-3776. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ LAINE, NINA (2008). Trust in Superior-Subordinate Relationship: An empirical study in the context of learning (PDF). Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ a b Baker, Vicky (27 June 2008). "Top 10 hospitality travel sites". The Guardian.
- ^ Rodemann, Julian (29 March 2016). "Couchsurfing mit Haken". Die Welt.
- ^ Baker, Vicky (18 April 2008). "Going local in Caracas, Venezuela". The Guardian.
- ^ "Managing a non-profit hospitality platform conversion: The case of Couchsurfing.com". Tourism Management Perspectives. 30: 138–146. 2019-04-01. doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2019.02.018. ISSN 2211-9736. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ Thomas, Amelia (28 February 2006). "Backstory: Extreme vacation". Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ a b "Freunde in der Fremde". stern.de (in German). Retrieved 24 April 2021.
- ^ Stellin, Susan (July 9, 2006). "Go to Strangers (and They'll Come to You)". The New York Times.
- ^ Rustam Tagiew; Dmitry I. Ignatov; Radhakrishnan Delhibabu (2015). Hospitality Exchange Services as a Source of Spatial and Social Data?. (IEEE) International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW). Atlantic City. pp. 1125–1130. doi:10.1109/ICDMW.2015.239.
- ^ Luca, Lucian C. (2007). Staying without paying: Heading towards free tourism (PDF). Budapest: Central European University. Retrieved 28 May 2021.