couchsurfing
Can anyone be a hotelier?
I just read an article about airbnb‘s iPhone app, which can tell you how much money you could be making by renting out your home. The writer ended with how cool it was that “anyone can become a hotelier”. Perhaps she was just romanticizing the whole thing and I shouldn’t imagine a future where all my […]
How to travel like a local? Start by sleeping like one
Wake up where every local does: in a home. At onefinestay we believe that’s exactly where your day should begin. You should be inspired by the place you’re staying in, live your day just as someone who lives there does. For us, living like a local means that there is not one rule for locals […]
Local travel: choice of accommodation or state of mind?
At PocketCultures we’re very pleased to be a partner of the newly launched Local Travel Movement. The interest this initiative has attracted, even before launch, is a good indication that local travel is a growing and global trend, albeit one still in its defining stages. For now it’s defined around a loose set of values which the […]
Are couchsurfing networks legitimate local travel?
When we launched the Local Travel Movement, we stated our belief that Local Travel is greater than the sum of its parts and that the Local Travel Movement could be a rallying point through which, by working together, we can give locals a real voice, engage travellers and develop a dialogue within the travel industry. […]
Local accommodation networks
There has recently been an emergence of online accommodation networks – websites that enable you to bypass hotels and rent a place to sleep from locals, swap your own for it, or just get it for free in return for being a pleasant guest.
Couchsurfing thesis
Last year, we met Szilvia Weyer, a former Spotter, in Berlin. She told us then she was working on a thesis about Couchsurfing, and we had an interesting conversation about it Szilvia has been so kind to share an English summary of the thesis with us yesterday. So I hope Spotted by Locals has the […]