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Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
David Picard
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Description for Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
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The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a "better world". The book is key reading for anyone interested in how computer mediated communication is changing contemporary ... Read more
The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a "better world". The book is key reading for anyone interested in how computer mediated communication is changing contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837622553
SKU
V9783837622553
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About David Picard
David Picard (PhD) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research in La Réunion and Madagascar has been focused on tourism development, environmental policy, NGOs, divination, healing and witchcraft, and hospitality. Sonja Buchberger lectures at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and the School for Oriental and African ... Read more
Reviews for Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?
"[The book] exhaustively covers multiple topics with high contemporary relevance ina very accessible way." Anastasiya Astapova, H-Net-Reviews, 4 (2014) "The various experiences as hosts and guests plus nine different writing styles make the book a varied reading. Following the authors experiences, the results of their studies are sometimes presented as interested facts nearby; hence it is not like reading an ... Read more