Commercial Homes in Tourism by Paul Lynch (9780415470186)

Description - Commercial Homes in Tourism by Paul Lynch

This volume is the first to examine significant conceptual dimensions of the commercial home from an international perspective. The concept of the commercial home pays attention to the most frequently occurring but often neglected forms of commercial accommodation such as farmstays, bed and breakfasts, guest houses, small family hotels, homestays, historic houses, self-catering accommodation, timeshares etc. Conceptually, it helps to explain a range of behaviours and practices, for example the importance of setting, the nature of the host-guest exchange, rituals and sequences. The idea of home provides a conceptual bridge to related themes, for example, identity, gender, emotional management, sociability, temporality, sustainability 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, female entrepreneurship, spatial management and the significance of setting.The second theme considers the commercial home as an investigative lens to examine wider issues of society, hospitality and tourism, including social marginalisation, seasonality and the lifestyle entrepreneur, emotional labour management as a form of home protection, gendered space and 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, the monastic guesthouse, the use of the home in marketing regional localities and long-term ocean yacht cruising. 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, academic faculty, researchers and business practitioners.

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