BeWelcome News

Have you ever been to a hospitality Exchange camp? Ever heard of the Mont Royal Summer Camp?
It will happen for the 11th time this year - from July 19th to 24th and it has become one of the  oldest camps in the hospitality exchange communities in Europe. The organizer flohfish put a lot of effort into this multiple day event with ist festival like character.

The camp will take place in flohfishs home town - the picturous Traben-Trarbach

 Location: Traben-Trarbach, Germnany

https://goo.gl/maps/PEB…

Ooops - they do it again: The BeWelcome members from Marseille in southern France invite you (yes - you!) for the second time to spend a weekend in their beautiful city: September 22nd to 24th, 2017.

They are preparing an amazing Programm: Aperitives, Hiking, Games & Quizzes, Contests ...

Join them here:

https://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1915

This year I will not be able to join but attended in 2016 and it was one of my nicest weekends of last year: relaxed city discovering, picture…

After 10 years of growth it is time to get a better overview over what BeWelcome members experience, what motivates them, what issues they encounter and how we can make BeWelcome even better.
Many of you have expressed your opinions in the forum, but the vast majority has been silent most of the time.
However, everyone’s experience is valuable for us. Now it is up to you to give us impulses to shape the future of BeWelcome.

For this reason many of you will receive an invitation for an online…

It is already a week ago that the 6th Seek the Duck Weekend took place in Toulouse from June 2nd to 4th. With lots of love and energy and hospitality from Southern France the local community organized wonderful activities, starting with a picknick on friday night at the boards of Garonne river, playing Pétanque and Mölkki, a treasure hunt, visiting a local sunday market together and a spontanous cooking session to end the weekend. About 25 BeWelcome members enjoyed the weekend.

This was the…

Did you know that BeWelcome has a video channel?
https://vimeo.com/bewelcomevideo

In the last weeks two new videos have been uploaded there.

The first one is about the 10 anniversary weekend of BeWelcome in Berlin, April 30 – May 1. 2017:
https://vimeo.com/217298171

Thanks to amnesiac84
https://www.bewelcome.org/members/amnesiac84

not only for having been the driving force behind the whole weekend but also for having made this Video.

Also brand new is the introduction video to BeWelcome: A 4…

Yesterday BeWelcome was able to welcome its 100.000th member!

This is great news!
Although BeWelcome does not focus on numbers having more than 100.000 members now is good news for our community because it means that travellers have better chances to find hosts in more places and that our white spots on the global map are getting scarcer.

 

A slow and steady growth of member numbers is the perfect proof that our chosen path to not actively market our community anywhere works well. Word of mouth…

For the 6th time our local community from Toulouse (Southern France) organizes a weekend full of discoveries and activities.Come and join "Seek the Duck" from June 2nd to 4th!

 

Here you find the program they put together:

http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1757

 

All activities are free. Only for the wine tasting you are asked to pay 3 Euro per person to be able to buy good wines. And life is too short to drink bad wines!

 

Please sign in each of the activity to make it easier for the…

We want to warn you about a specific threat which we have just become aware of. 
A person claiming to be a 23 year old lawyer from Lithuania and living in Norway has been reported to police in Austria for stealing money from a host in Vienna while at his home alone. He had claimed in last minute hosting groups and accommodation requests to hosts using the name "Karlivas" that he had been robbed and urgently needed a place to stay until he could take his flight. The same story he had also used…

Scammer reported for theft in Austria   We want to warn you about a specific threat which we have just become aware of.
A person claiming to be a 23 year old lawyer from Lithuania and living in Norway has been reported to police in Austria for stealing money from a host in Vienna while at his home alone. He had claimed in last minute hosting groups and accommodation requests to hosts using the name "Karlivas" that he had been robbed and urgently needed a place to stay until he could take his…

The countdown is on for the first BIG event to celebrate BeWelcomes 10th anniversary:

Come to Berlin from April 28th to May 1st and join a loooong weekend full of activities, meet the city with its touristy and off the beaten track sights, and most of all: Meet other BeWelcome members and have a good time together!

Here is the program that the local BeWelcomers put together for you:
http://www.bewelcome.org/activities/1762

Please have a look at the different activities and join them separarely to…