Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Dimensions of the commercial home; 2 Bed and breakfast, homestay and farmstay accommodation: Forms and experiences; 3 Hosts as entrepreneurs: Female commercial home entrepreneurs in Gaeltacht areas in the west of Ireland; 4 Farmstay enterprises: (Re)interpreting public/private domains and 'home' sites and sights; 5 Sharing space with visitors: The servicescape of the commercial exurban home

6 Exploring the importance of setting to the rural tourism experience for rural commercial home entrepreneurs and their guestsPart II The commercial home lens; 7 The discourse of home hosting: Examining the personal experiences of commercial home hosts; 8 Time to trade?: Perspectives of temporality in the commercial home enterprise; 9 Behaving appropriately: Managing expectations of hosts and guests in small hotels in the UK; 10 The cave-homes of Göreme: Performing tourism hospitality in gendered space; 11 Rural dimensions of the commercial home; Part III Extending the commercial home concept

12 The hospitable Muslim home in urban Malaysia: A sociable site for economic and political action13 The monastic cloister: A bridge and a barrier between two worlds; 14 The diversification of the commercial home: Evidence from regional Australia; 15 All at sea: When the commercial home is a sailing boat; 16 Conclusions and research considerations; Bibliography; Index