Difference between revisions of "hospitality exchange"

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Hospitality exchange is social networking that allows people to find a place to stay or simply meet travellers or local people.

BeWelcome (BW): is a hospitality exchange network, based on an free software, democratically controlled by NGO BeVolunteer. and started by ex unsatisified HC volunteers.

Hospitality Club' (HC): is the biggest network, but there are issues of censorship and basically one person is in control.

CouchSurfing (CS): is also big, and its policies are somewhat more open and democratic. Managed by a non-profit organization.
Servas is an offline hospitality exchange network, more than 50 years old, and somewhat inconvenient for today's youth, but apparently it is completely democratic (including elections).
Pasporta Servo (http://www.pasportaservo.org/): Esperantist hospitality network.

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 '''Hospitality exchange''' is [[social networking]] that allows people to find a place to stay or simply meet travellers or local people.
-*'*'''[[BeWelcome]]''' (BW): is a hospitality exchange network, based on an [[free software]], democratically controlled by [[NGO]] [[BeVolunteer]]. and started by ex unsatisified HC volunteers.
+*'''[[BeWelcome]]''' (BW): is a hospitality exchange network, based on an [[free software]], democratically controlled by [[NGO]] [[BeVolunteer]]. and started by ex unsatisified HC volunteers.
 ''[[Hospitality Club]]''' (HC): is the biggest network, but there are issues of censorship and basically one person is in control.
 *'''[[CouchSurfing]]''' (CS): is also big, and its policies are somewhat more open and democratic.  Managed by a non-profit organization.