Commercial Homes in Tourism : An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415470186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Paul Lynch;Alison J. McIntosh;Hazel Tucker

Opis

Examines the commercial home from an international perspective, paying attention to such forms of commercial accommodation as farmstays, historic houses and self-catering accommodation. Conceptually, the book helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices related to the idea of home.

The hotel has been the dominant paradigm that has long determined, and served as, a commercial accommodation role model. Its counterpoint, the private home, is frequently represented as the antithesis to the hotel. Recently however, the commercial home has been proposed as a distinctive alternative to both the hotel and the private home whilst simultaneously recognising hotel and private home influences.

The concept of commercial homes brings together the most common form of commercial tourism accommodation worldwide, and yet, there is a current gap for a research-based book giving recognition to this distinctive and economically important form of accommodation. This book therefore addresses this gap in the tourism-related literature and represents a conceptual development in tourism business. Given the global nature of the commercial home phenomenon, this book will be of interest across a broad range of outlets.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Bed and Breakfast, Homestay and Farmstay Accommodation: Forms and Experiences  3. Hosts as Entrepreneurs: Female Commercial Home Entrepreneurs in Gaeltacht Areas in the West of Ireland  4. Farmstay Enterprises: (Re)Interpreting Public/Private Domains and ‘Home’ Sites and Sights  5. Sharing Space with Visitors: The Servicescape of the Commercial Exurban Home  6. Exploring the Importance of Setting to the Rural Tourism Experience for Rural Commercial Home Entrepreneurs and Their Guests  7. The Discourse of Home Hosting: Examining the Personal Experiences of Commercial Home Hosts  8. Time to Trade? Perspectives of Temporality in the Commercial Home Enterprise  9. Behaving Appropriately: Managing Expectations of Hosts and Guests in Small Hotels in the UK  10. The Cave Homes of Göreme: Performing Tourism Hospitality in Gendered Space 11. Rural Dimensions of the Commercial Home  12.The Hospitable Muslim Home in Urban Malaysia: A Sociable Site for Economic and Political Action  13. The Monastic Cloister: A Bridge and a Barrier Between Two Worlds  14. The Diversification of the Commercial Home: Evidence from Regional Australia  15. All at Sea: When the Commercial Home is a Sailing Boat  16. Conclusions and Research Considerations