Hospitality services

The concept of of hospitality services,also known as “accommodation sharing”,” hospitality exchange” ,and “home stay network”, refers to centrally organized  social network of individuals who trade accommodation without monetary exchange.while this concept could also include house swapping or even time share plan ,it has come to be associated mostly with travelers and tourists staying with one another free of charge.since the 1990s  ,there service has increasingly moved away from using printed catalogs and phone tree s to connet users towards internet websites.these have grown exponentially since 2000 and as of March,2007 over 500,000 people are registered users of these networks.this very in poerational structure,place different emphasis on graphical vs.textual formatting ,and cater disproportionately to specific geographic region.

    In 1949,Bob luitweiler founded the first hospitality service called servas Open Doors as a cross national,non profit,volunteer run organization advocating interracial and internatonal peace.the next rarliest began in 1965 when john wilcock set up the Traveler’s Directory,orginally as a listing of his mutual friends willing to host each other when traveling.this later became the hospitality exchange in 1988when john lily rescued the organization from imminent demise.Hospitality Club is the direct successor hospex,the first internet-based service,currently the largest hospitality exchange network,and is growing exponentially.Couch operating out of Germany since 1992.it is surfing is a never but also rapidly  growing hospitality exchange organization founded  in 2004.just as all the individual service have their own individual creation stories and organizational histories(often including demise and resurrection),many also have specific niche  markets that they cater to including students,religions pilgrims,and even occupational groups like police officers.However ,they trend in recent years points to a greater consolidation of users in networks without a specific group,value,or lifestyle affiliation.

   In essene,these systems  employ reciprocity-users gain access to other users informational only by postin g their own.Required field normally include name and contact information,though newer service encourage users to include more detail personal material ,including likes and dislikes ,hopes and dreams,and even photographs.of cours ,more information included tends to improve the chances that someone will find them trustworthy enough to host or stay with while traveling.