Commercial Homes in Tourism
An International Perspective
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 3 April 2009
- ISBN 9780415470186
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 Illustrations, black & white; 3 Halftones, black & white; 7 Line drawings, black & white; 19 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
This is the first book to give recognition to this distinct, economically important and expanding form of tourism business by, bringing together recent and international research on this common form of commercial tourism accommodation.
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This volume is the first to examine the commercial home from an international perspective, paying attention to the frequently occurring but often neglected forms of commercial accommodation including farmstays, historic houses, and self-catering accommodation. Conceptually, it helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting and the nature of the host/guest exchange. The idea of home provides a conceptual bridge to related themes, for example identity, gender, emotional management and cultural mobilities whose investigation in a commercial home context offers fascinating insights into hospitality, tourism and society.
This book is structured around three themes. The first is dimensions of the commercial home and includes discussion of issues pertaining to forms and characteristics and female entrepreneurship. The second theme considers the commercial home as an investigative lens to examine wider issues of society, hospitality and tourism such as the commercial home as a tool for rural economic development. The third theme, extending the commercial home paradigm, looks at new areas of development, including the Malaysian Muslim home as a site for economic and political action and the use of the home in marketing regional localities.
Commercial Homes in Tourism is the first book to give recognition to this distinct, economically important and expanding form of tourism business by bringing together recent, international research on this common form of commercial tourism accommodation. Given the global nature of the commercial home phenomenon, and owing to the originality of its theoretical contributions and practical insights, this book will be of interest across a broad range of subjects and disciplines interested in the examination of the home phenomenon, including students, academics and business practitioners.
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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
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