Wyndham Worldwide Corporation provides various hospitality products and services to business-to-business customers and individual consumers. It operates in three segments: Lodging, Vacation Exchange and Rental, and Vacation Ownership. The Lodging segment franchises hotels in the upscale, middle, and economy segments of the lodging industry. This segment owns approximately 6,500 franchised hotels, which represents 543,000 rooms. The Vacation Exchange and Rental segment provides vacation exchange ...

The CouchSurfing Project is a free international Internet-based hospitality service. As of April 2007, it had more than 208,000 members in 216 countries and territories. From various indicators it can be estimated that many members were actively using the website, with 40% offering their couches to host travelers (with another 22% saying "maybe" and others who are traveling at the moment).

Members use the website, initially designed by founder Casey Fenton, to coordinate accommodations. It fe ...