What does "host family" mean?

B&B refers to the use of occupied houses, idle rooms or idle houses, combined with local humanities, natural landscapes, ecology, environmental resources and agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry production activities, as a family sideline business, to provide tourists with accommodation for rural life.

In addition to ordinary hotels and guest houses, other places that can provide accommodation for tourists, such as houses, leisure centers, farms, farmhouses, pastures, etc. , can be classified as a homestay.

According to different regions, B&Bs can be divided into urban B&Bs and rural B&Bs. B&B is different from hotels or restaurants. B&B is different from traditional hotels. It may not have high-end luxury facilities, but it can make people feel the local customs, the enthusiasm and service of the owners, and experience a life different from the past.

Features of B&B:

1, folklore and culture

B&B is home in the country, so you must feel at home. If a homestay has 100 rooms and 200 rooms, it is called a country hotel, not a homestay.

2. Small scale, good service, comfortable facilities and suitable environment.

Although the monomer scale is small, it can be small or large, and it can still be gathered into a large project, which produces an objective feeling that it is comfortable and suitable.

3. Good environment

The environment is attractive, life is attractive, emotions are touching, and word of mouth is coming. So the hotel must have a good environment. If we treat some so-called new socialist countryside as hotels now, what about hotels?

Extended data

Reasons for the rapid development of homestays:

1. China has entered the middle and late stage of industrialization and reached a middle-income country, which is the basic factor of B&B, especially in the developed coastal areas, which are now in the late stage of industrialization or even the post-industrialization period, and this lifestyle is bound to be pursued in this period.

2. From single sightseeing to complex development, this is the driving factor of B&B fever. The National Tourism Administration talks about traveling from scenic spots to global tourism, which is actually a thrust.

3. The shortage of city life and air pollution are the stimulating factors of hotel fever. Today's big cities, especially megacities, can be said that the bigger the city, the more obvious the disease, too busy, too anxious, too crowded and too dirty. This filth is not the appearance of the city, but the feeling of air pollution and life, so you must escape when you have the opportunity. Where are you going? You should escape to the countryside to experience a host family.

4. The influx of small and medium-sized capital is the leading factor of B&Bs supply. Don't think that the threshold of B&Bs is low. In fact, B&Bs has a low capital threshold, but the operating threshold is not low. Strictly speaking, the operating cost is higher than that of city hotels. Therefore, it is necessary to accumulate some small things here.

5. With the change of the pattern of agriculture, countryside and farmers, there are more resources and idle houses are hollowed out, which is a possible factor for the development of homestays. From the perspective of demand-side precision and supply-side reform, it is determined that homestays in China will continue to develop for a long time.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Su Min