Social:Hospitality Club

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Hospitality Club
Area servedGlobal
OwnerVeit Kühne
Founder(s)Veit Kühne
ProductsHomestay
ServicesSocial networking service
LaunchedJuly 11, 2000; 25 years ago (2000-07-11)
Current statusOffline

Hospitality Club (HC) was a hospitality exchange service (a gift economy network for finding homestays whereby hosts were not allowed to charge for lodging) accessible via a website. HC's specified goals were to facilitate "intercultural understanding ... bringing people together ... travelers and locals".[1]

History

Hospitality Club banner; taken in July 2005 in Monnai, France.

Hospitality Club was founded in July 2000 in Koblenz, by Veit Kühne, who was inspired by a trip to South America.[2][3][4][5] It later incorporated technology from Hospex.org, a similar service.[6]

In 2005, a disagreement between some members of Hospitality Club and its founder led to the foundation of BeWelcome.[7] Many HC members, who became volunteers within Couchsurfing, left HC towards CS because of its missing legal status and insufficient management transparency.[8]

In February 2006, Kühne was working full-time on Hospitality Club.[9] In the spring of 2006, an event took place in Riga with 430 participants from 36 countries.[10]

As of July 2006, the site had 155,000 members.[11] This number grew by around 1,000 new members a week in 2006.[10]

In 2007, Google Trends search volume for hospitalityclub.org started to decline and was overtaken by the search volume for CouchSurfing.[12]

In 2008, HC had more than 400,000 members from 200 countries.[4]

In 2013, HC had more than a half of million members from 200 countries.[13]

By 2017, only one third of members were still active.[3]

By April 2022, the website was completely offline.[14]

Safety measures

Hospitality Club had a reputation system, whereby members left references for others.[10] For added safety, members were encouraged to check each other's passports, although it rarely happened.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "The Hospitality Club". https://hclub.livejournal.com/profile/. 
  2. ↑ "Netzwerk eines Träumers". Der Spiegel. 2 August 2006. https://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/hospitality-club-netzwerk-eines-traeumers-a-399666.html. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Calderara, Jesko (2 August 2017). "Ein umstrittenes Geschäftsmodell" (in de-ch). St. Galler Tagblatt. https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/appenzellerland/ein-umstrittenes-geschaeftsmodell-ld.609319. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Baker, Vicky (27 June 2008). "Top 10 hospitality travel sites". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/jun/27/travelwebsites.top10. 
  5. ↑ Rodemann, Julian (29 March 2016). "Couchsurfing mit Haken". Die Welt. https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/finanzen/article153750482/Couchsurfing-mit-Haken.html. 
  6. ↑ "Welcome to HOSPEXerver". http://hospex.org/. 
  7. ↑ Baker, Vicky (18 April 2008). "Going local in Caracas, Venezuela". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/apr/19/caracas.adventure?page=all. 
  8. ↑ o'Regan, Michael; Choe, Jaeyeon (2019-04-01). "Managing a non-profit hospitality platform conversion: The case of Couchsurfing.com" (in en). Tourism Management Perspectives 30: 138–146. doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2019.02.018. ISSN 2211-9736. https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/files/58160942/finalsubmit10.pdf. Retrieved 28 May 2021. 
  9. ↑ Thomas, Amelia (28 February 2006). "Backstory: Extreme vacation". Christian Science Monitor. https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0228/p20s01-wome.html. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Freunde in der Fremde" (in de). Stern. 27 January 2006. https://www.stern.de/digital/online/hospitality-club-freunde-in-der-fremde-3504590.html. 
  11. ↑ Stellin, Susan (July 9, 2006). "Go to Strangers (and They'll Come to You)". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/travel/09prac.html. 
  12. ↑ 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. 
  13. ↑ Локша, Анна Владимировна (2013). "О необходимости повышения социальной составляющей молодежного туризма в России" (in ru). Телескоп: Журнал Социологических И Маркетинговых Исследований (5). ISSN 1994-3776. https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20380753. 
  14. ↑ "Der Hospitality Club – ein Nachruf" (in de-at). unsere-zeitung.at. 24 August 2022. https://www.unsere-zeitung.at/2022/08/24/hospitality-club-ein-nachruf-2/. 



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