Commercial Homes in Tourism

An International Perspective
Herausgeber: Lynch, Paul; McIntosh, Alison J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Critical Studies in Tourism, Business and Management
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781138880610
• ISBN-10: 1138880612
• Artikelnr.: 42790102

Autorenporträt

Paul Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Strathclyde, UK Alison McIntosh is Associate Professor in Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Waikato, New Zealand Hazel Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand

Inhaltsangabe

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