Homestays help answer the question of why we travel.
About the Homestay Index
The first annual Homestay Index is a data-driven analysis of the global homestay landscape, detailing the phenomenal growth of a new category of travel accommodation. It explores homestay traveler and host behaviors and preferences, how technology changes are redefining travel from the ground up, and what the future holds.
Homestays are the embodiment of the “sharing economy” for accommodations, and represent a new choice for experiential travel. Every year, tens of thousands of people are deciding for the first time to open their homes to guests from all corners of the globe. Every year, more and more travelers are taking them up on their offers. Homestays are no longer just for students of language and culture, but a wide variety of travellers.
A True Value Stay
“I found lots of overpriced, low quality hotels when searching for somewhere to stay. Having previously stayed in a homestay on a trip to Croatia, I decided to try searching on the word “homestay”, thinking that the locals would have to be renting out their rooms for the World Cup. When I found my host Selma in Curitiba was available and at a reasonable price, I cancelled a hotel booking I’d already made.”
Gennieve, USA, June 2014