Kate Rich and Sneha Solanki [hostexe.org]
are developing a protocol for a distributed hotel system
Houses of Benefit in London.
While guest services (concierge, breakfast, lobby) will be centralised,
we will be outsourcing bedroom locations around the central London area.
Local hosts, sourced via social networks, will provide comfortable, glamorous &/or interesting
accommodations to culturally-funded visitors, in exchange for cash.
The idea is based on a mutual-benefit economics,
with the intention to a) undercut overblown london hotel
rates; b) provide visitors with a more interesting
experience than an Ibis & c) the redistribution of cultural funds
by paying peer hosts direct.
