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2007 - Gale Group | TDA
... participating in global hospitality exchange networks, such as CouchSurfing, tourists can meet local people who are willing ... meet people around the world by hosting them. CouchSurfing works as a system of reciprocity, in which ... global community with diverse cultures is envisaged in CouchSurfing. Although CouchSurfing is global in its scope, it is locally ... different ways by different cultures. The meaning of CouchSurfing is negotiated by surfers and hosts who both participate in it, and the reciprocal system of CouchSurfing seems to be more complicated when different cultures ...
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
Couchsurfing is a website to facilitate hospitality exchange between global travelers and local hosts. As Couchsurfing was initiated, it was just an alternative accommodation for budget travelers. However, now Couchsurfing has been recognized as a stylish way of ... scenarios. In the light of the transformation of Couchsurfing, this study tries to explore how social-media ... hosts, surfers, and spaces are mobilized to perform Couchsurfing. Goffman's performance theory as well as the ... and tourist performance is adopted to analyze the Couchsurfing practice. By studying on couchsurfers' online performance, offline ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Tourist Studies
... explore the motivations behind couchsurfers’ decision to go couchsurfing, and also to explore the influence of the couchsurfing experience on the satisfaction with the stay. Design/ ... the main motivations behind the choice of the couchsurfing experience as a form of sustainable tourism. Findings ... and the social responsibility. Similarly, the influence of couchsurfing on the satisfaction with the stay manifests itself ... accommodation providers manage to deploy the values that couchsurfing promotes, which are sociability and the preoccupation with ...
Tópico(s): Digital Marketing and Social Media
2018 - Emerald Publishing Limited | International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research
Maximilian Klein, Jinhao Zhao, Jiajun Ni, Isaac Johnson, Benjamin Mako Hill, Haiyi Zhu,
Although Couchsurfing and Airbnb are both online communities that help users host strangers in their homes, they differ in an important sense: Couchsurfing prohibits monetary payment while Airbnb is built around ... We conducted interviews with users experienced on both Couchsurfing and Airbnb ("dual-users") to better understand systemic ... on these interviews we propose that, compared to Couchsurfing, Airbnb: (1) appears to require higher quality services, ( ... s growth has coincided with a decline in Couchsurfing. Taken together, our findings paint a complex picture ...
Tópico(s): FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
2017 - Association for Computing Machinery | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Olena Hanchuk, Olga V. Bondarenko, Iryna Varfolomyeyeva, Олена Пахомова, Tetyana Lohvynenko,
... of sustainable future. The article is dedicated to couchsurfing, a kind of sustainable youth tourism, a global ... charge. The article considers the organizational structure of couchsurfing as a network managed by regional units. The ... They offer a comprehensive classification of types of couchsurfing by several criteria (age of tourists, number of ... of tourist flow). The regional peculiarities of the couchsurfing development are identified, and the regions with high ( ... distinguished. The map material illustrating the spread of couchsurfing around the world is created.
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2020 - EDP Sciences | E3S Web of Conferences
Julianna Priskin, Joris Sprakel,
... croissante de communautes touristiques en ligne telles que CouchSurfing renforce son role en tant que moyen d’ ... gens de tous les coins de la planete. CouchSurfing est une cybercommunaute touristique qui « a pour but ... de faciliter la comprehension entre les differentes cultures » (CouchSurfing, 2008). Selon le critere principal du tourisme durable, ... decrit par l’Organisation mondiale du tourisme, le couchsurfing peut probablement etre considere comme une forme de ...
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2008 - | Téoros Revue de recherche en tourisme
... to analyse the production of space in the CouchSurfing hospitality network in Russia. The article proposes the ... the concept of rhythm in the analysis of CouchSurfing as a spatial practice. The findings suggest that CouchSurfing allows users to open up new spaces of ... of which become essential intangible aspects of the CouchSurfing experience.
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
Salar Kuhzady, A. Celil Çakıcı, Hossein Olya, Boshra Mohajer, Heesup Han,
... to investigate the positive impacts of involvement on couchsurfing, such as P2P accommodations on the destination image, ... was collected from 609 travelers who have used couchsurfing while traveling to Turkey from 2016 to 2017. The results revealed that involvement in couchsurfing improved the destination image, familiarity, the E-WoM, ...
Tópico(s): Transportation and Mobility Innovations
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Katherine Peterson, Katie A. Siek,
... information disclosure and awareness of disclosure implications on Couchsurfing.com. Couchsurfing is an online social networking site where users ... leads users to share more information on their Couchsurfing profile than they ordinarily would share on mainstream ... Facebook or MySpace. After a survey with twenty Couchsurfing users and semi-structured interviews with nine participants, ...
Tópico(s): Spam and Phishing Detection
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
... that develop innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to CouchSurfing.com, a free online hospitality exchange network. The growing popularity of CouchSurfing poses significant questions about the way hospitality is ... to highlight some of the features that make CouchSurfing and similar social networking sites such a compelling ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
Vicky Steylaerts, Sean Ó’ Dubhghaill,
... first outlines and then theorizes the emergence of CouchSurfing as a trend, as well as an allegedly ... and negative experiences, and how participants individuate their CouchSurfing experience, so that it is uniquely theirs. Examining ... which an individual can individuate his or her CouchSurfing experience, within the host/guest dichotomy.
Tópico(s): Cruise Tourism Development and Management
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
Alain Decrop, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Jérôme Mallargé, Pietro Zidda,
Presented as an alternative form of tourism, Couchsurfing is a predominantly non-commercial accommodation type where hosts offer a "couch" to travelers through a hospitality network. Couchsurfing.com is considered as an icon of the ... qualitative study, we discuss the transformative power of Couchsurfing experiences, the underlying transformational processes, conditions, and socio- ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing
Daniel Tumpal Hamonangan Aruan, Felicia Felicia,
... activity (renting vs lending), particularly between Airbnb and Couchsurfing. More specifically, this study examines the causal relationships ... indicating that they are more risk-averse, whereas Couchsurfing’s users sought the perceived value that they ... of this study are beneficial for Airbnb and Couchsurfing in particular and players in the industry in ...
Tópico(s): FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
2019 - Emerald Publishing Limited | International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research
Couchsurfing is a social-networking site for hospitality exchange. To promote the site, the organizer, Couchsurfing.org, creates the discourse of Couchsurfing cosmopolitanism to emphasize the value of sharing with strangers and tolerance of cultural difference in Couchsurfing practice. This study argues that the discourse production ... By conceptualizing the sexed-and-gendered body in Couchsurfing, this study exposes the power, knowledge and social relation in the cross-cultural context of Couchsurfing, represented not only in women's feeling, performance ...
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Gender Place & Culture
Undhan Sevisari, Ina Reichenberger,
... on guest perspectives. Using the sharing economy platform Couchsurfing, this study aims to use value co-creation ... and 1 focus group were conducted with experienced Couchsurfing hosts in Indonesia. Findings Findings highlight the exclusively ...
Tópico(s): FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
2020 - Emerald Publishing Limited | International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research
... its empirical focus the online hospitality exchange network Couchsurfing. Using the concept of 'moral affordances', the analysis outlines the way Couchsurfing's technical systems, software design, and search algorithms ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2013 - Elsevier BV | Annals of Tourism Research
... specifically focused on two such brands: Airbnb and Couchsurfing. Our main findings reveal the emerged themes: the ... Xuemei Bian, "User-Generated Brands and Social Media: Couchsurfing and Airbnb", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.9, No. ...
Tópico(s): Service and Product Innovation
2013 - Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research | Contemporary Management Research
Yaping Liu, Linlin Nie, Li Li,
Couchsurfing is an increasingly popular hospitality exchange community that is building bridges between travelers and locals. This ... reciprocity principle prove to be main contributors to Couchsurfing's development.
Tópico(s): Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
2016 - Cognizant Communication Corporation | Tourism Analysis
Sodam Kim, Kyung Young Lee, Chulmo Koo, Sung‐Byung Yang,
CouchSurfing is a free social-network-based online hospitality exchange network, aptly representing a new sharing economy ... study based on a Web survey conducted with CouchSurfing hosts reveals that the most identified antecedents (enjoy ... accommodations. Interestingly, the overshadowing effect of trust in CouchSurfing on the intention to share accommodations is also ...
Tópico(s): FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing
Markus Schuckert, Mike Peters, Gerhard Pilz,
... growing phenomenon in the non-traditional accommodation sector, couchsurfing has attracted sustained attention in tourism, since, unlike ... familiarity with destinations. The results also underscore that couchsurfing constitutes a cultural exchange and accommodation experience beyond ...
Tópico(s): Transportation and Mobility Innovations
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Tourism Recreation Research
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcina Amália Nunes Moreira, Christianne Luce Gomes,
... por uma rede social virtual de viajantes denominada Couchsurfing. Traduzida como “surfe de sofá”, essa prática é ... interesses e motivações pela rede e pelas viagens Couchsurfing, entre os anfitriões e hóspedes jaguarenses, bem como ... no contexto de práticas sociais emergentes, como o Couchsurfing.
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2018 - Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Turismo | Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo
Huang Xiang, Qingming Cui, Zhao Chen,
Trust building is a core issue in couchsurfing; however, existing research has mainly focused on trust formation in Western culture and ignored other cultural contexts. This article examines couchsurfing practices in China and explores the influence of ... the mandatory identity authentication required by the Chinese couchsurfing website, which builds trust in the social system. ...
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2023 - SAGE Publishing | Tourist Studies
Katie Hail-Jares, Rhianon Vichta-Ohlsen, Theo Butler, Anna Dunne,
... we explore the relationship between psychological distress and couchsurfing, with attention to the latter's transitory and ... used to explore the associations between demographic and couchsurfing factors and cumulative K10 score. Gender, cultural background, ... number of hosts stayed with during the last couchsurfing episode emerged as statistically significant factors. Our study finds that young people who are couchsurfing have much higher levels of psychological distress than ... they prioritize and serve young people who are couchsurfing.
Tópico(s): Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless
Devan Rosen, Pascale Roy Lafontaine, Blake Hendrickson,
... such as sense of belonging, connectedness, and trust. CouchSurfing.com is an online cultural exchange community in ...
Tópico(s): Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
2011 - SAGE Publishing | New Media & Society
New technologies in use today like CouchSurfing.com are allowing people to create planned encounters, en masse, between other strangers. These 'technologies of hospitality' are producing new rules of ... two strangers become close using one such technology: CouchSurfing.org. While such encounters foster trust, mutual learning ...
Tópico(s): Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
... societies. An ethnographic study on the practice of CouchSurfing in Marrakech (February–July 2010) shows that several ... and speculative contemplation among neighbours, this article explores CouchSurfing's entanglement with (other) local forms of hospitality ...
Tópico(s): Marriage and Sexual Relationships
2012 - Intellect | Hospitality & Society
... from about two millions ties that members of CouchSurfing—an international hospitality organization whose goal is to ... to be stronger in the early years of CouchSurfing, when the online reputation system was still developing ...
Tópico(s): Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
... of cosmopolitan learning among hosts in a hospitality couchsurfing network in Siberia. The data making up the ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2013 - Berghahn Books | Sibirica
... their domestic sphere as they welcome visitors via Couchsurfing, an online hospitality exchange service. The findings depict ...
Tópico(s): FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
2016 - USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism | International journal of communication