China's TourBoarding.com Introduces Hosted Homestay For Organizations, a Corporate Homestay Solution
Chinese online travel barter site TourBoarding.com creates New Niche in Corporate Travel Housing Sector with Hosted Homestay for Organizations, an ultra-affordable Sustainability and Social Impact Initiative.
- (1888PressRelease) January 14, 2012 - As housing costs for foreigners continue to rise in Beijing, Shanghai, and other densely populated cities in China, TourBoarding.com now offers a low footprint, hosted homestay solution that produces dramatic savings in corporate housing and travel costs, and at the same time, enables this cost savings to be achieved in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
Launched in 2010, TourBoarding.com is the world's first peer-to-peer travel barter site allowing travelers to pay local hosts for accommodation, meals, tour guiding, and other valuable travel benefits using their language skills as currency.
With Hosted Homestay for Organizations, TourBoarding can now extend similar benefits to foreigners in China attached to an organization, via the creation of a Group Profile, while previously such language-as-travel-currency benefits were only available to individual traveler members.
Organizations which can benefit include those that must fulfill the temporary or transitional housing needs of their foreign visitors and personnel, including students, cultural exchange participants, interns, business travelers, professionals, specialists, expatriates, NGO personnel, peace workers, and missionaries.
With payment of a modest Group Profile setup and access fee, organizations can upload onto the TourBoarding site an organizational or corporate profile as well as create associated individual profiles of the visitors, students, or personnel they are sponsoring. The organization and their sponsored individuals can jointly access (or the organization can solely access) TourBoarding.com's online platform to search for and connect with local hosts to obtain free travel related benefits, including homestay, home-cooked meals, tour guiding, and Chinese lessons.
In exchange for receiving these benefits free of charge, the organization's sponsored individuals who participate in the TourBoarding exchange must agree to speak two hours daily of fluent English or other in-demand language, such as German, Russian, French, Japanese, or Korean with their local host family to help them achieve fluency in their desired foreign language.
Besides saving an organization 70-90% of their corporate travel/housing hosts, Hosted Homestay for Organizations is an ideal solution for those employers or institutions sincerely committed to showing good environmental and social cause stewardship in China, and is designed to help an organization's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Department achieve its sustainability and social impact objectives.
Additional benefits include a true cultural immersion living environment for foreign personnel who need to succeed in the local marketplace; the deeply rewarding experience from helping local Chinese learn about the languages, customs, and practices of other countries, and exposing them to educational, career development, and business opportunities; and increased goodwill, visibility, and brand appeal of the sponsoring organization.
Hosted Homestay for Organizations is also an attractive option when offered as part of an Employee Perks program where employees can enjoy free travel housing, tour guiding, and cultural activities during their leisure and vacation time, such as weekend escape trips, throughout the year.
"Right now, there are many who feel that what we are offering is radical. But in a few years, this practice of foreigners staying with locals for mutual benefit will be commonplace throughout the world," said Cathy Tao, TourBoarding's Chair of International Development.
About TourBoarding.com:
TourBoarding.com is a socially responsible, planet friendly leader in language-financed travel with its "Teach Language, Tour Free" travel barter platform, allowing international travelers to meet locals and exchange their native language skills for accommodation, tour guiding, and other valuable travel experiences in the developing world. Find out more at: http://www.tourboarding.com.
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