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    Master Thesis
    The Commodification of Hospitality an Analysis of Tourism Encounters Between Interculturality and Difference in Regard To Turkish Couchsurfing Experiences
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2017) Spitz, Tara; Kartarı, Asker
    Couchsurfing emerged as a reaction to a package tourism of the masses that was increasingly perceived of as an unauthentic experience of foreign cultures and even potentially harmful to the hosts' culture and country. The new creed of Couchsurfers was thus “Authentic experience on a par with the hosts” telling of cosmopolitanism and a relationships of deeper socio-cultural value. Wondering to what extend such aspirations can retain their integrity in a mostly economy driven world i tested the Couchsurfing model against several cultural theories and came to rather disenchanting results.