You do not need to own it in order to use it. It is one of the principles of the collaborative economy that exchanges, shares and generates “procommon”. It is not a new concept, but this type of consumption has been strengthened by the Internet and has also turned the world of tourism upside down.

We know the CouchSurfing service offered by the couch, the Airbnb that serves to rent a room, or the transportation companies Uber and BlaBlaCar. Many of them have been questioned on many occasions by unfair competition, precariousness, run over...This is an unregulated panal and the debate is inevitable.

Collaborative tourism has also reached the camp camp. There are not few tools for renting private campervans; AreaVan is king in the Basque Country, a web site based in the Basque Country. There are also services that exchange private camping sites, such as CampInMyGarden.
You only have the
camper van of California or your older friend to see the stars for free in the place of dreams. On this slope of the Pyrenees there are many fans of the vans and they are often followed with great interest those who say in the forum Furgovw.org. Users are organized there to explain repairs done on their own and to do group purchases.

The most special part of the forum is the map Furgoperfecta. Using GPS coordinates you can install and locate the appropriate places to spend the night with the vans. The conditions are free of charge, avoiding the risk of fines or warnings, if it is possible to have several infrastructures (tables, public toilets...) and, above all, to have nice places to visit. Throughout Europe we can find hundreds of “furgo-perfect”, but the epicenter is undoubtedly Euskal Herria.

This map recovers the public space to make common use of deserted parking and urbanizations, a free space with a commons license, to put it another way. All this, in addition, in a collaborative way, as the information is shared so that all have the most accurate data on the advantages and disadvantages of the place. n