BeWelcome

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BeWelcome
BeWelcome-logo.png
Available in41 languages
HeadquartersRennes
Area servedGlobal
OwnerBeVolunteer
ProductsHomestay
ServicesSocial networking service
URLwww.bewelcome.org
LaunchedFebruary 2007; 14 years ago (2007-02)
Part of a series on
Homestays
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For the community in Mississippi, see Bewelcome, Mississippi.
For other uses of "BW", see BW (disambiguation).

BeWelcome (BW) is a hospitality exchange service accessible via a website or a Android app. The platform is a gift economy; hosts are not allowed to charge for lodging.

BeWelcome is operated by BeVolunteer, a nonprofit organization organized as a voluntary association registered in Rennes, Brittany, France, which is composed solely of volunteers. The software behind the website, the BW-rox platform, is free and open-source software.[1][better source needed]

The site has about 160,000 users, approximately 150 login per day, and 20% have logged in 12 months.[2][clarification needed]

History[]

The idea for the website came in 2005 after members of Hospitality Club had a disagreement with its founder.[3]

The website was launched in February 2007.[4][5]

After CouchSurfing became a for-profit corporation in 2011, some members urged others to join BeWelcome.[6]

In May 2019, a redesigned website was launched.[7][third-party source needed]

Homestay requests[]

BeWelcome grants trustworthy teams of scientists access to its anonymized data for publication of insights to the benefit of humanity. In 2015, an analysis of 97,915 homestay requests from BeWelcome and 285,444 homestay requests from Warm Showers showed general regularity — the less time is spent on writing a homestay request, the lower is the probability of success. Since both networks are shaped by altruism, low-effort communication, aka 'copy and paste requests', evidently sends the wrong signal.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "About BeWelcome". BeWelcome.
  2. ^ "BeWelcome Stats". BeWelcome. Archived from the original on 2013-01-10. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  3. ^ Baker, Vicky (18 April 2008). "Going local in Caracas, Venezuela". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Baker, Vicky (26 August 2011). "Budget Travel: Not-for-profit Couchsurfing becomes a company (with a conscience)". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Kugel, Seth (7 January 2014). "Tips for Travel Savings in 2014". The New York Times.
  6. ^ Brown, Kristen V. (26 November 2014). "A rough ride to profit for CouchSurfing". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. ^ "BeWelcome Announces Launch of Platform Redesign" (Press release). May 2, 2019.
  8. ^ Tagiew, Rustam; Ignatov, Dmitry I.; Delhibabu, Radhakrishnan (2015). Economics of Internet-Based Hospitality Exchange. (IEEE/WIC/ACM) International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT). Singapore. pp. 493–498. arXiv:1501.06941. doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2015.89.

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