Hospitality Club was the first online organisation to offer on a major scale the possibility for travellers to find and contact locals open to cultural exchange. The whole system is entirely free, though supported by Google Ads . The safe and efficient operation of the 30+ languages website and its database, forum, and chatroom depends on the work of hundreds of volunteers from around the world. Discussion about Hospitality Club issues is not allowed on the website's forum, hence critics often mention lack of transparency in how they perceive decisions are taken by volunteers in Hospitality Club. Another point of critique is the fact that there is no official organisation behind Hospitality Club, and the website is directly registered to the founder of the Club , who also informed other that as long as he is involved, there won't be any "democratic committee" . Messages containing links to other hospitality exchange networks were  deleted without further notice , a policy that might have changed, but about which no further information has been released . Exponential growth of the network has also caused server failures alike to those observed in Wikipedia until recently.
Hospitality Club was the first online organisation to offer on a major scale the possibility for travellers to find and contact locals open to cultural exchange. The whole system is entirely free, and hosting fees are supported by Google advertisements . The safe and efficient operation of the 30+ languages website and its database, forum, and chatroom depends on the work of hundreds of volunteers from around the world. Discussion about strategic or security issues is not allowed on the website's forum, hence critics often mention lack of transparency in how they perceive decisions are taken by volunteers in Hospitality Club. Another point of critique is the fact that there is no legal organisation behind Hospitality Club, and the domain name is registered to the founder of the Club himself . Messages containing links to other hospitality exchange networks were at some point deleted without further notice though this policy has since then been reverted . Exponential growth of the network has also caused server failures alike to those observed in Wikipedia until recently.
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