Hospitality Club
Hospitality Club is a social networking service accessible via a website used to arrange homestays and hospitality. The platform is a gift economy; hosts are not allowed to charge for lodging.
 An unofficial logo designed in 2004 by Canadian Glenn Gobuyan shows two people with arms over each other's shoulders in friendship and waving for you to join them, in the shape of the letters "HC". It is reminiscent of cave paintings to illustrate that hospitality is as old as humanity. | |
| Area served | Global |
|---|---|
| Owner | Veit Kühne |
| Founder(s) | Veit Kühne |
| Products | Homestay |
| Services | Social networking service |
| URL | www |
| Alexa rank | 856,958 (As of 16 January 2020)[1] |
| Users | 792,000[2] |
| Launched | July 11, 2000 |
History
Hospitality Club was founded in July 2000 by 22-year old Veit Kühne with the help of friends and family.[3][4] Kühne had been inspired by his experiences with homestays in Mensa International and his student social networks.[5]
In January 2005, Kühne emailed members reiterating his control over decisions regarding the website.[6]
In 2006, Kühne was working full-time on Hospitality Club.[7]
In 2007, Google search volume for hospitalityclub.org started to decline and was overtaken by the search volume for the competitor couchsurfing.org.[8]
See also
- Hospitality club members on Wikipedia
References
- "Alexa Internet: HospitalityClub.org". Alexa Internet.
- "The Hospitality Club: Members in all countries and territories". Hospitality Club.
- Baker, Vicky (27 June 2008). "Top 10 hospitality travel sites". The Guardian.
- Stellin, Susan (August 6, 2006). "Exchange hosts open homes to travelers, new experiences". San Diego Union Tribune.
- "Hospitality Club: About Us". Hospitality Club.
- "HC democracy and strategy". WikiLeaks. 19 January 2005.
- Thomas, Amelia (28 February 2006). "Backstory: Extreme vacation". Christian Science Monitor.
- 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.
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