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*'''[[Hospitality Club]]''' (HC): is the biggest network, but there are issues of censorship and basically one person is in control.
 
*'''[[Hospitality Club]]''' (HC): is the biggest network, but there are issues of censorship and basically one person is in control.
*'''[[BeWelcome]]''' (BW): is a new hospitality exchange network, controlled by [[NGO]] [[BeVolunteer]], created by HC dissidents.
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*'''[[BeWelcome]]''' (BW): is a new hospitality exchange network, controlled by [[NGO]] [[BeVolunteer]], and started by HC dissidents.
 
*'''[[CouchSurfing]]''' (CS): is also big, and its policies are somewhat more open and democratic.  Managed by a non-profit organization.
 
*'''[[CouchSurfing]]''' (CS): is also big, and its policies are somewhat more open and democratic.  Managed by a non-profit organization.
 
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*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).
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).
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==External links==
 
==External links==
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* [http://208.69.124.38/opencs/ Share the love]: a hospitality network being developed, to be based on open-source software and distributed system.
 
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/ BeWelcome.org]
 
* [http://www.bewelcome.org/ BeWelcome.org]
 
* [http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/ Opencouchsurfig.org] "The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation"
 
* [http://www.opencouchsurfing.org/ Opencouchsurfig.org] "The campaign for a truly open CouchSurfing organisation"

Revision as of 10:16, 15 July 2007

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

  • Hospitality Club (HC): is the biggest network, but there are issues of censorship and basically one person is in control.
  • BeWelcome (BW): is a new hospitality exchange network, controlled by NGO BeVolunteer, and started by HC dissidents.
  • 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).

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This article is based on a public domain infoAnarchy article: Hospitality_exchange iA