2.0 Definition of homestay.
Home stay is a unique hospitality system in which the tourist stays with the family as a member of the family. It aims at equipping the tourist with the knowledge of the host’s way of life such as the agricultural system, folk arts, sculptures sports and cuisine. (Minister of tourism of Republic of Kenya)
2.1 Relationships of tourism and homestay
From the last six decades, the tourism industry has become the largest and fastest growing economic sector according to United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) that experiences continue growth and diversification. Tourism has become a main component for socio- economies for many countries. From all countries in the world, tourism has generated whole countries output of US $3.5 trillion and expected to increase to US $7.0 trillion by 2015 (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2009). The World Tourism Organization (WTO) has expected that tourism industry is bright in the future as they estimate that one billions of tourists in each year will travel to other countries. Moreover, the economic potential of tourism in less developed countries has been identified as an important contributing factor to global tourism growth (Palmer 2002; Honey 1999; Ashley & Reo 1998; Mowforth & Munt 1998).
In Malaysia, manufacturing has become the largest contributor to economy followed by the second contributor that is tourism sector. Through the developing and promoting tourism product, Malaysia has caught the eye of the world by it tourism sector. Malaysia has received 22.05 millions of tourists that produce RM 49.6 billion of total receipts only in year 2008. This result showed that a tourist arrival has increased 5.5% that lead to increasing of country revenue with 7.9%...
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...not be found. It is not surprising if homestay at its earliest stage was free as to honor the guest in line with the hospitality of the villagers. The kindness the turned into something that needs a reward in terms of money when the host began to feel the economic burden such as to provide meals when more tourist came and stayed at their house. This then expanded into a micro business type for the villagers. (Aminudin and A. Jamal, 2008)
From the paragraph above, it shows that homestay has started in the tourist spot and expanded because of high demand from them. The house hold started charged for the services that they give as it becoming business as they realize it can generate money for the services they provide to the guest.
2.3 development of homestay
Nowadays, the demand for homestay is due to more than the reason that is cultural tourism and rural tourism
Homestyle Hotels Inc is a consequence of merger of Lifestyle Resorts and Home Away Hotels. Every individual inn works in storehouses with no institutionalized procedure to catch customer data. At first, Ben Garrett (the IT executive's)
Travel and tourism is the largest industry as it a billion dollar industry. Malaysia currently acquired their biggest achievement of securing 25.7 million tourist arrivals last year which will contribute the millions of ringgit to the economy impact.
What is home? If one looks in a dictionary the answer would come out to be, “The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.” However, for anyone who has had an actual home, they would know that such a term goes much beyond its concrete description. It is an impassioned aspect filled with values and foundation of nurturing. A home is not just an abode built to live in; in fact, that is just a definition of a house. Home is a place where one not only feels comfortable, but a place they look forward to opportunely live in every day. A home is built not by bricks or wood, but with the bond of family. A home is a place that reminds a person of countless memories and values when he walks through a corridor of the house, or looks at one of his belongings. On the other hand, a person can move from one house to the next. However, their home remains the same. No matter where they go, people will reminiscence about the one place or a group of people with whom they felt truly content.
According to Abraham Maslow theory of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, the first stage is need to satisfy physiological needs included air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, and sleep there are most important things of human. When people leave their house and go for travel the two basic things they needs which is accommodation and food, and hotel industry exactly provides both things. Hotel also can defined that as a “Home away from home”. According to the dictionary of hotel meaning, a building to provide lodging, food, and other services for travellers and guests on a short-term basis and they need to pay for that (oxford dictionaries and Wikipedia). The author A.M. Sheela as mentioned that hotel is the place where the tourist stops being the traveller and become a guest. Hotel not only offer accommodations and food, it also provided wide range of services such as lounges, banquet facilities, and entertainment facilities etc.
A hotel is an establishment that supply accommodation, often meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests. It offeres paid lodging, typically on a short-term basis. Hotels often provide a number of additional customer services such as restaurant, laundry, swimming pool or childcare. As the hotel varies in size, shape and age, the exact role of the housekeeping department will differ from one hotel to another. However, whatever the type or size of hotels, with concern to the work of housekeeping, this department has one basic function, is to oversee the cleanliness and comfort of hotels.
It also goes into depth about the tourism industry, but the teahouses where geishas work are still unavailable to uninvited guests. A good sum of money and being welcomed to sit and converse with these talented ladies is the only route to see
According to the Oxford Dictionaries Homestay is, “A holiday or other period abroad spent staying in the home of a local family.”
He write “Adventure Tourists – that’s those young people who come with back packs, take selfies all over the place, and talk loudly about how ‘awesome’ they are in the bar, isn’t it? “. (Local Council Member: 1). Author of this reasoning show unknowingness of a basic idea of who is the Adventure Tourist. Research conducted in 2014 by The Adventure Tourism Trade Association, demonstrate that global average age of Adventure Tourism customer is 48. (ATTA, Industry Snapshot) This information prove that not only young people are adventure tourist, furthermore they are the minority. Next words of Local Council Member who suggest that this kind of tourist don’t have a jobs, are again the falsehood. According to ATTA, the average global trip price per day is 477 US Dollars, this statistic indicates that customers of this niche of tourism definitely have a financial resources to pay for their active holidays. There is no research about employment of average adventure tourist, but it can be assumed that most of them earn their money at some kind of work. Local Council Member said that in his opinion this part of industry not bringing much money in. As stated in UNWTOs “Global Report on Adventure Tourism” in comparison, on a global level, non-adventure tourists spend about 500 US Dollars per person per holiday, this is about 40% less than the amount spent by adventure tourists. What is more in mass tourism, approximately four-fifths of the revenue from a trip goes to airlines, hotels and other international companies. In contrast, in adventure tourism, quarter of the revenue goes to local communities. This means that this niche brings more money than ordinary kind of tourism and is more beneficial to local
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
Tourism is the one of economic and social activities that increasingly vital. Number of travellers domestic and international is increasing. In fact, several countries in present world develop tourism sectors as primary sector which generate national income. According to Salah Wahab and Cooper (2003). Tourism is also sector which involves role that mutually link between government, private sector and also public.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
This company provides accommodation facilities with hospitality for people who come from other areas but this is not a hotel service. This is called first unhotel hospitality product which enable guest to live like locally by experiencing luxury facilities. This concept has gone beyond the hotel service and it is called as vacation home. This great business concept was created in 2009 on the mind of Grey Marsh who is the CEO of this company. They are keeping their relationships with two parties to be success in their business and to make high profit in the market place. In here, they provide their service to typical high market home owners by giving the opportunity to let them out their home for people while the home is
In the more economically developed countries (MEDCs), synonymous mainly with the industrialised countries of the northern hemisphere there, has been an explosion in the growth of leisure and tourism industry, which is now believed to be the worlds second largest industry in terms of money generated. In order to differentiate between leisure and tourism it should be recognised that leisure often involves activities enjoyed during an individual’s free time, whereas tourism commonly refers to organised touring undertaken on a commercial basis. Development in the two areas could be attributed to changing patterns in working lives within the last four decades. Generally, people now have more disposable wealth, work shorter hours, receive longer, paid annual leave, retire earlier and have greater personal mobility. In addition, according to Marshall & Wood (1995), the growth of the tourist industry per se can be associated, in part, with the concentration of capital; the emergence of diversified leisure based companies, sometimes within wider corporate conglomerates and often associated with particular airlines. Furthermore, the development of tourism can generate employment both directly, in jobs created in the hotels, restaurants etc, and indirectly, through expenditure on goods and services in the local area. Nevertheless, although the tourist industry is competitive, which essentially keeps down the cost of foreign travel, the success of tourism in any one area can be ‘influenced by weather, changing consumer tastes, demographics, economic cycles, government policy, not to mention international terrorism and other forms of conflict.’(1) Although such factors may have a detrimental affect on the economy of a popular tourist destination (or even tourism in general, in light of September 11th 2001), the consequence of tourism in general is often three fold: environmental, social and cultural, which in turn has prompted a search for new ‘friendly’ approaches that are less destructive.
Exploring a vacation is always filled with excitement. Traveling far from countries has become simply due to technology. Selecting a destination is the prime most task of planning a vacation. We always notice the must-see places in the world. The least talked about countries are one to better avoid.
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,