Allures of the Global, Gender and the Challenge to Confucian Hospitality among Vietnamese Couchsurfers from Ho Chi Minh City
Résumé
While 60 % of the world population is concentrated in Asia, less than 10 % of the members of the global couchsurfing hospitality community live in
Asian countries.1 What are the factors that explain the apparently lesser “success” of this hospitality community among Asians? To respond to this
question, I carried out an empirical case study in Vietnam. The focus was on the Vietnamese couchsurfers living in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the
first and largest city of the country, which accounts for 7 % of the Vietnamese population and 22 % of its urban population (General Statistics
Office Of Vietnam, 2011).