Peter Heesakkers

Participate in Creating a Better World, One Couch at a Time

An Explorative Study on the Phenomenon of CouchSurfing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

CouchSurfing belongs to what is referred to as a "online hospitality exchange network" which can simply put be described as a online social networking site fostering offline relationships and contact in the form of non-monetary hospitality exchange. The objective of this book is to explore and analyse the CouchSurfing community together with developments from technological, societal and tourism perspectives in order to explain the popularity, motives and possible future developments on this type of travelling. Theories of networked individualism, which refer to the changing nature of creating and maintaining friendships as a result of technological developments; the blurring between online and oflline, which is referred to as de-differentiation; alienation from hedonism and the desire economy, which relate to the challenge economy and; disintegration of traditional communities explain the increased popularity of CouchSurfing from a societal & technological perspective and will bediscussed in this book. These findings, together with findings on the practice & ideology of CouchSurfing will be combined with Plog's & Cohen's models in order to introduce a typology of CouchSurfers

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 155g
• ISBN-13: 9783659134197
• ISBN-10: 3659134198
• Artikelnr.: 35923539

Autorenporträt

Peter Heesakkers (1980) studied International Tourism Management & Consultancy at the NHTV University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 2008. Peter's graduation research on 'Online Hospitality Networks' was nominated for two thesis awards in the Netherlands and was later internationally published