Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Hospitality Begins At Home

I am just thinking aloud so that you can hear me. Isn’t it nice that one day every Singaporean can go anywhere in the world knowing that someone will receive him or her  like a family member coming home rather than a tourist or visitor. Better still, we are thousands of friendly red dots members (Singaporeans) worldwide who offer each other free accommodation exchange when travelling.  
Of course, the idea of hospitality and accommodation exchange is not new and has been around for a long time. I am just cutting and copying Veit Kühne, who founded a network for members of the largest student exchange organization AFS in 1997, based on the model of volunteer country coordinators that had been used by Mensa's hospitality network SIGHT.
Many other people have founded similar hospitality network organizations, and a lot of special interest groups too have developed - hospitality exchange networks for bikers, for women, for backpackers and student exchange. If you think that Singaporeans at home and abroad will travel in a different way, meet each other and build friendship and understanding through personal contact – we would love you to come onbroad and help us to share this dream.

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