The concept of couch surfing is against the tourist interests of my country.

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I hope that you have heard of couchsurfing.com. Some of you may even be members of that community. Couch surfing is an internet community in a global basis for friendship and cultural exchange. The main feature of the community is that members of the community gets free accomodation at couchsurfers place in a foriegn country while they are in tour. Many western couchsurfers are enjoying this facility in developing and under developed countries. As we all know it is people from the US and Europe travel the most. A very small number of people alone travel from the poor countries. So the benefit of couchsurfing scheme is enjoyed mostly by American and Europian travellers. I am an Indian. We here are doing a lot of things for promotong tourism in this country. We welcome foriegn tourists wholeheartedly. We expect business from them. The money they spent in this country keep the economy of the country animated. The main business in the tourism field is in the hospitality sector. But the emergence of couchsurfing type of communities topple the scope of hotels and guest houses. If we ask they may say that we are also offered with the same benefits when we travel. But as I stated earlier, seldom do people from India travel to western countries on visiting tours. I think this is a planned conspiracy from the part of the travelling community of western countries to exploit the poorer countries. Therefore couch surfing should be banned in India, for the best tourism interests of the country. What is your opinion?