Homestay

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Homestay is a form of tourism and/or study abroad program that allows the visitor to rent a room from a local family to better learn the local lifestyle as well as improve their language ability.[1] While homestays can occur in any destination worldwide, some countries do more to encourage homestay than others as a means of developing their tourism industry.[2] Hosting a homestay participant also allows the local family to earn some additional, needed income.[3] Being low profitable, as it is, homestay can not be regarded as strictly commercial activity, but more of cross cultural exchange.[verification needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rivers, William P. (1998). "Is Being There Enough? The Effects of Homestay Placements on Language Gain During Study Abroad". Foreign Language Annals 31 (4): 492-500. 
  2. ^ "Three Interesting Events On Selangor Tourism 2008 Itinerary", Malaysian National News Agency, 2008-05-16. Retrieved on 2008-05-26. 
  3. ^ "Herbal Certainty", 2008-05-17, Bangkok Post. Retrieved on 2008-05-26. 
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