Essay on Changes in Hospitality Industry
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Essay on Changes in Hospitality Industry
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Law2Introduction:Tittle of hospitality is usually considered as device which deals with the public relations(Lashley, 2015). In other words, this term encourages the study related to the hosts, guests, andhospitableness. It states the relationship between guest and host under which host receives theguest with goodwill and it also includes the reception and entertainment of guest, visitors, andstrangers. There are number of expert’s which states that hospitality is the services granted bygreat soul that actually cares for whole universe through the ties of humanity. Exploring theconcept of hospitality in the context of social science can be considered as the basic agenda ofthe hospitality. Therefore, study related to hospitality covers all the aspects of relationshipbetween hosts and guests, domestic and commercials facts, and cultural settings. On the basis ofthese aspects it can be said that hospitality very important for human life and culture (Blain &Lashley, 2014). This essay discusses the changes happen in hospitality industry with time, and what type ofchanges can be occurred in future. These changes are analyzed with the help of some argumentssuch as how this industry becomes inhospitable with time, whether industry has both hospitableand inhospitable elements and changes occurred in this industry as per the market conditions, etc.Structure of this essay contains the background which includes brief history of domestic/privatehospitality, role of this industry in commercial sector, and context of hospitableness in lieu ofstated arguments. After discussing about the context and meaning of hospitality, this paper stateshow hospitable today the hospitality industry is and impact of technology on hospitality. Lastly,essay is concluded with brief conclusion which states the important facts of essay in brief.
Law3Background:The broader enquiry of term hospitality demands academic research which includes the analysisof historical activities in context of cultural, domestic, and commercial domains (Lashley &morrionson 2000). Each domain represents the different aspect of hospitality and details of theseaspacts are stated below: Brief history of hospitality in domestic and private context:The domestic domain helps in the consideration of some issues related to the definition ofhospitality, hosting and ‘hospitableness’. Hospitality is defined as supplying food, drinks, andaccommodation to those peoples who are not the members of the household. There are numberof articles which exclusively consider the commercial market in which exchange is occurredbetween the person who receives the hospitality and person who supplies the hospitality. Settingrelated to domestic domain is determine as revealing setting because the concerned partiesrelated to the transaction are performing their roles in such manner that goes beyond therelationships of service interaction in narrow market. The provision which is related to the food, drinks, and accommodation clearly reflects thefriendship and this friendship are usually maintained in domestic domain. Hospitality indomestic context creates symbolic ties between the people who are engaged in hospitality andthis result in strong bond between the peoples who are sharing hospitality. In societies of pre-industrial times, treating the strangers kindly will be considered as highly values in number ofsocieties, as stated by Heal (1990) motive behind this treatment was not solely altruistic. Receiving strangers in the house also help the person in monitoring the behavior of suchstranger. As stated by Visser (1991), relationship between the host and the guest goes far if theact of the friendship is involved. Both guest and host are originated from the common Indo-
Law4European word which actually means stranger and enemy, but in actual link related to singleterm is not referred so much in case of individual people as it includes the guest and the host andalso the relationship between them. It is considered as the relationship which is actually basedon mutual obligations such guest can become host on any other event. However, there arenumber of individuals who have the experience of both consuming and supplying the food, drinkand accommodation in domestic context, and some individuals enter into commercial contextwithout having such experience in domestic context. Hospitality in Commercial context:The commercial context of hospitality takes place in most western societies where hospitality isnot considered important in value system. Wider concept of hospitality establishes robustunderstanding of importance of hospitality activities for the purpose of providing betterknowledge of commercial application of hospitality. It is not possible to reject the benefitsoccurred from commercial hospitality which result in various opportunities related to travel,intercourse with others, etc., commercial provision related to activities of hospitality is mainlyinspired by the need of profit earned by service interaction. Hospitality activities in commercialdomain, results in number of tensions and also the contradictions which can be reduced afterunderstanding the hospitality activities in cultural and domestic domains. After considering theresearch done by Heal (1984), Nouwen (1998), Telfer (2000) and O’Gorman (2007), it is easy tounderstand the hospitality in association with human activity, and it is also possible to findnumber of motives because of which hosts offering hospitalities to the guests. These motivesprovide strong reasons to the host for providing hospitability in more kind and better way. Inother words, when host provides the hospitality for the purpose of making benefit then in suchsituations hospitality is only offered merely for the joy and pleasure of hosting. Increasing trend
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