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Accommodation sharing, also known as "hospitality exchange", refers to the use of data sharing or online platforms to find or offer accommodation in a home. In this practice, the host offers a place to stay for the guest, in exchange of a monetary value or no money at all.

Traveling communities such as Hospitality Club and Couchsurfing offer free accommodation to travelers. In this exchange, a traveler resides in the home of a host and leaves after a few days with no monetary profit for either party. [1] In payed platforms such as Airbnb, there are fees for both guests and hosts once a reservation has been made. [2]

Alternative tourism

Origin

Alternative tourism or Alternative travel is a process which promotes a just form of travel between members of a community. Its main objective is to achieve mutual understanding, solidarity and equality amongst participants. [3] Alternative tourism was first coined in the early 70s, in response to the economic, environmental, and social effects of mass tourism, which were seen as unsustainable, inauthentic and superficial. [4]

As a result, it appears as a process in which the client receives accommodation directly in or at the home of the host with, eventually other services and facilities offered there. [5] Various online platforms serve as the medium to find accommodation. These platforms provide access to a wide range of services, many of them of higher quality and more affordable than their traditional business counterparts. [6]

Online platforms

Online platforms have a crucial role when referring to access of information and the way it connects users. They cover activities such as online advertising platforms, marketplaces, search engines, social media and creative content outlets and application distribution. [7]. These types of platforms are used for collaborative consumption, where users exchange information/resources as part of the sharing economy. Samuel Nadler considers that the sharing economy has widened the overall supply of travel options. [6] In the sharing economy, anyone is able to start a tourism business.

Types of shared accommodation

Social networks are the main platform travellers use when seeking for accommodation. Accommodations can be as follow:

  • Flat/House share: A property rented out as a whole by a group of people under a joint tenancy. All tenants are responsible for the rent payments and obligations. [10]
  • Rooms to rent (live out landlord): In this case, a landlord rents their property out by the room. Each person has his or her own separate agreement with the landlord.[11]
  • Rooms to rent (live in landlord): A person or family owns a property, lives in it and rents out one or more rooms. Flat or housemates are referred as lodgers. [12]
  • Sub lets: A type of agreement, when people rent a property under a standard assured short hold tenancy and decide to rent out one of the rooms of the property, collecting the rent themselves. [13]

Examples of Sharing Networks

  • Night Swapping: Is a community of people that host other members in their guest rooms or entire home, to travel for free. [8]
  • Trampolinn: Is a homestay community based on an night swapping system [9]
  • Trustedhousesitters: A community of home and pet owners with care-orientated sitters who will look after their home and pets for free, in exchange for a place to stay. [10]

References

  1. ^ Siyue Liu, CiCi. A CouchSurfing Ethnography: Traveling and Connection in a Commodified World (2012)[1] Retrieved December 7 2016.
  2. ^ How do Couchsurfing's and Airbnb's size and scale compare? [2] Retrieved December 10 2016.
  3. ^ Lertcharoenchoke, Narueporn. Alternative Tourism. [3] Retrieved December 10 2016.
  4. ^ Alternative Travel: Let's Try To Define It [4] Just Traveling. Retrieved December 1 206.
  5. ^ Smith V.L., Eadington W.R., Tourism alternatives: potentials and problems in the development of tourism, International Academy for the study of tourism, USA, 1992.
  6. ^ a b Juul, Maria. The Sharing Economy and Tourism (September 2015). [5] Retrieved December 10 2016
  7. ^ Online platforms [6] European Commission. Retrieved December 9 2016.
  8. ^ "How does it work?" [7] NightSwapping. Retrieved December 6 2016.
  9. ^ "What is Trampolinn?". [8] Trampolinn. Retrieved December 6 2016.
  10. ^ "We bring caring people together" [9] TrustedHousesitters. Retrieved December 6 2016.
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