Odysseus spends two days in the land of the king Alkinoos and it isn't until late in the second day where they even ask for his name! Finally after Odysseus tells the Phaiakians who he is and where he is from they load up their ship and begin the journey home. ********Even when looking back at the first example with the Phaiakians it can be assumed that the reason the Phaiakians welcome any stranger no matter who they may be with open arms is to help prevent causing any quarrels with anyone else. "There is no such man living nor can there ever be one who can come into the land of the Phaiakians bringing warlike attack," Nausikaa even says it here (107).
Now Outis, to think that that was just one example is just crazy, but after careful consideration there seems to be an underlying meaning of all this hospitality in the Odyssey. When you look at most of these instances closely you are able to see that after providing a stranger with all of these offerings it seems that the host are almost looking for something in return, and this happens in many different ways. Most of Odysseus' "hospitable" stops or encounters with non mortals are met with tragedy at the end, which end up making his journey harder and harder, and show that some of these host like to take the form of being hospitable in order to take advantage of unsuspecting travelers. When Odysseus and his men land at the land of the Laistrygones they were welcomed at first like any other man would expect to be welcomed, they were pointed to the house of the king who ruled over the land, but when they arrived they were attacked and killed not only in the house but the whole city, who at first welcomed these strangers, began to attack Odysseus' ships so that Odysseus and his ship where the only ship to escape this horrifying attack. .
(relate this to songs) Another time when hospitality is used to form a false sense of ease so that one can take advantage of unsuspecting travelers is the songs of the Sirens.