A Typology of Hosts in Housing Tourism
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Table 2 Types of hosts and their characteristics
Type of host
Characteristics
Lineage
• Chosen in the original family
• Better possibilities of being an enricher of the accommodation experience
(because of his/her attachment to the house)
• Mission to ensure the continuity of the house (more important than to obtain
profit from the hosting activity)
• Attachment to the house, due to his/her family bond, what obliges him/her to
dedication to the hosting activity
By acquisition • Purchases the house aiming, mostly, to profit from it
• Less possibilities of enriching the accommodation experience (he/she lacks
attachment to the house)
• Vicariously attached to the house
• Less willing to sacrifice himself/herself for the sake of the house
Initiator
• Good interpersonal relationship skills
• Reduced management skills
• Low proactivity
• Scarce technological skills
• Limited language proficiency
Continuing
• Professionalizing view of the hosting activity
• High technological skills
• Good management skills
Professional
• Low levels of attachment to the house (with negative implications to the
host’s role as an enricher of the accommodation experience)
• High level of technological skills
• High dedication to hospitality management
• High levels of personal fulfilment
• Language proficiency
• High levels of proactivity and creativity
• Good management skills
• High interpersonal relationship skills
Manipulator
• Exempts themselves from the legal framework by means of fraud
• Has enough equity so doesn’t have to use the house for the hosting activity
• Keeps the lodging capacity of the house closed to tourists
• Preserves his/her attachment to the house in full, avoiding loss of autonomy
• Low interpersonal relationship skills
Source Adapted from Braga (2016)
rural areas into multifunctional spaces that aim to meet the demand for leisure and
tourism among urban populations.
Tourism, when performed in a sustainable manner, has long-term benefits. In fact,
this activity involves a system of economic activities—associated with the provision
of accommodation, food and beverage, transport, entertainment, as well as other
services intended to be consumed by tourists—which generates a multiplier effect
of income and employment in the economy.
In turn, HT has been contributing to the restoration of many houses of erudite
heritage and has also fostered the ‘return to the origins’ of several families who
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Table 2 Types of hosts and their characteristics
Type of host
Characteristics
Lineage
• Chosen in the original family
• Better possibilities of being an enricher of the accommodation experience
(because of his/her attachment to the house)
• Mission to ensure the continuity of the house (more important than to obtain
profit from the hosting activity)
• Attachment to the house, due to his/her family bond, what obliges him/her to
dedication to the hosting activity
By acquisition • Purchases the house aiming, mostly, to profit from it
• Less possibilities of enriching the accommodation experience (he/she lacks
attachment to the house)
• Vicariously attached to the house
• Less willing to sacrifice himself/herself for the sake of the house
Initiator
• Good interpersonal relationship skills
• Reduced management skills
• Low proactivity
• Scarce technological skills
• Limited language proficiency
Continuing
• Professionalizing view of the hosting activity
• High technological skills
• Good management skills
Professional
• Low levels of attachment to the house (with negative implications to the
host’s role as an enricher of the accommodation experience)
• High level of technological skills
• High dedication to hospitality management
• High levels of personal fulfilment
• Language proficiency
• High levels of proactivity and creativity
• Good management skills
• High interpersonal relationship skills
Manipulator
• Exempts themselves from the legal framework by means of fraud
• Has enough equity so doesn’t have to use the house for the hosting activity
• Keeps the lodging capacity of the house closed to tourists
• Preserves his/her attachment to the house in full, avoiding loss of autonomy
• Low interpersonal relationship skills
Source Adapted from Braga (2016)
rural areas into multifunctional spaces that aim to meet the demand for leisure and
tourism among urban populations.
Tourism, when performed in a sustainable manner, has long-term benefits. In fact,
this activity involves a system of economic activities—associated with the provision
of accommodation, food and beverage, transport, entertainment, as well as other
services intended to be consumed by tourists—which generates a multiplier effect
of income and employment in the economy.
In turn, HT has been contributing to the restoration of many houses of erudite
heritage and has also fostered the ‘return to the origins’ of several families who