Can I stop messages from going to my email account? For me it's enough to read them on the website itself.

Sorry, but this is not possible. We did not want to create yet another online community, the idea of BeWelcome is to bring people together in real life and we consider a working email account as one link to you in real life. We do not want to oblige people to regularly log in to BeWelcome, even though this would be nice :). Especially for people with limited Internet access it is much more convenient to get messages to their email accounts automatically and thus be informed about members coming to their area.