Reflections on the home setting in hospitality.

This article builds upon an ongoing debate regarding the nature of hospitality management education through adopting a social scientific approach to the inquiry of hospitality. It does thus through focusing on the place of abode setting. Major themes from studies upon the private home are described and their relevance to understanding the traditional commercial domicile suggested. The themes relate to meanings of domicile anthropomorphic home, behaviours in the domicile home and gender, tyrannical and affectionate associations, place of abode as virtual community, the abode and hotel as antithetical conceptions Home is ...