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