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Workaway is a platform that allows members to arrange homestays and cultural exchange. Volunteers or "workawayers", are expected to contribute a pre-agreed amount of time per day in exchange for lodging and food, which is provided by their host. [1] [2] [3] The opportunities on offer are varied.
Couchers was founded by Aapeli Vuorinen and Itsi Weinstock during Covid-19 lockdowns and in response to CouchSurfing introducing a paywall to its site. [47] Couchers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the State of Florida in the United States and operates the Couchers.org service and project. [48]
It is currently unknown what the site originally looked like on its launch date since web.archive.org could only trace it to 1998, despite the site being found in 1996. [ 7 ] In 2006, HomeExchange.com was featured and promoted in the romantic comedy "The Holiday", produced and directed by Nancy Meyers.
Home exchange, also known as house swapping, is a form of lodging in which two parties agree to offer each other homestays for a set period of time. Since no monetary exchange takes place, it is a form of barter, collaborative consumption, and sharing.
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]
Servas International ("we serve (peace)" in Esperanto) is a non-profit organization providing a hospitality exchange service.. Servas is a nonprofit member organization that builds peace and cross-cultural understanding through day visits or overnight home stays among members who share information about themselves, to help ensure accountability.
Tripping.com, a subsidiary of HomeToGo, is an online search engine and review aggregator for vacation rentals.It aggregates over 10 million listings in more than 150,000 cities worldwide. [1]
WWOOF originally stood for "Working Weekends On Organic Farms" and began in England in 1971. [4] Sue Coppard, a woman working as a secretary in London, wanted to provide urban dwellers with access to the countryside while supporting the organic movement.