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. 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. Hosting a homestay participant also allows the local family to earn some additional, needed income. Having low profitability, as it is, homestay can not be regarded as strictly commercial activity, but more of cross cultural exchange.
Homestays offer several advantages such as exposure to
everyday life in another location, opportunity to live a local's life in a way
of experiencing the culture and tradition, opportunities for cultural
diplomacy, friendship, intercultural competence, and foreign language practice,
local advice, and a lower carbon footprint compared to other types of lodging.
Independent travelers typically arrange homestays via social
networking services. Homestays can also be arranged by academic institutions. Students
generally arrange a homestay with their school or educational institution, but
can also informally arrange to stay with a family through social connections,
and through a variety of private agencies. There are a number of online
homestay agencies that connect students with hosts all over the world.
Likewise, Homestay Melaka
especially is located in a strategic location which is near to the places of
interest, and moreover their swimmingpool attracts many people.
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