Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Yousuf, Mohammad; Backer, Elisa

doi:10.1002/jtr.2098

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“…This study further supports the broad notion that residents, as VFR hosts, have a substantial impact on the tourism activity of their community and contribute to economic and cultural development (e.g., Backer, 2012; Jackson, 1990). Further, travellers and hosts are not homogenous, and additional understanding of different hosting experiences is beneficial (Rogerson, 2017; Yousuf & Backer, 2017). Young et al (2007) found hosting frequency and level of information sharing was not affected by the length of time hosts had lived in the community, but perhaps due to the resident demographics, immigration was not included as a variable.…”

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Identifying active resident hosts of VFR visitors

Griffin

Guttentag

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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Substantial tourism activity can be attributed to visiting friends and relatives travel. However, the identification and classification of hosts who are most active, participating in touristic attractions and culture, has received limited attention. This study surveyed residents of Toronto, Canada, and segmented them depending on their own activity while hosting. Findings show that highly active hosts are more likely to be immigrants, to be entertaining large groups of both friends and relatives, and to be hosting overseas visitors in the destination for the first time. The results have implications relating to the engagement of residents as destination ambassadors.

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Identifying active resident hosts of VFR visitors

Griffin

Guttentag

2020

Journal of Tourism Research

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“…Hosting shifts context, inserting a leisure lens into the routine, where recent immigrants who are comparatively unfamiliar with their surroundings become guide, expert, and tourist (Humbracht, 2015;Yousuf & Backer, 2017). Hosts can feel obliged to entertain, and search for and engage in enjoyable and sometimes novel spaces and activities, helping them become more familiar with and attached to their community (Choi & Fu, 2018;Dutt & Ninov, 2017).…”

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The Development of Social and Cultural Capitals for Immigrant Hosts of VFR Travellers

Griffin

Glover

2020

Leisure Sciences

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The hosting of friends and relatives is an important and common experience. Hosting gives reason and opportunity for residents to explore their community while spending time with guests. For newcomers, hosting brings additional significance due to their relative isolation from traditional social networks and comparative unfamiliarity with the community. This narrative inquiry examines immigrants' experiences of hosting friends and relatives using Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital. Findings suggest that hosting creates a context where relationships are refreshed, resources exchanged, and capitals that enhance hosts' habitus in the new social field are developed. This impacts personal identity, sense of accomplishments, and increases familiarity with the new culture that may further integration. Application of both social and cultural capital demonstrates the opportunities and dilemmas for immigrant hosts interacting in dual social fields. A theoretical model delineates processes and implications for capital development laying foundations for future research and practitioner guidance.

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“…Seaton and Tagg (1995) also disaggregated the VFR market into three categories based on the visited parties: visiting friends (VF); visiting relatives (VR); and, visiting both. A clear understanding of the distinctiveness between these groups, especially between the VF and the VR, remains unrealised (Yousuf & Backer, 2017;Seaton & Tie, 2015). More research is needed to understand the travel behaviour of particular VFR groups, as well as the differences among them.…”

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“…Although type of accommodation is a defining factor for VFR tourism, it is not so for VFR guests. VFR hosts are defined as someone who has friends and/or relatives visit and stayed at least one night in their destination (Yousuf & Backer, 2017). They normally provide various hospitality services to their guests including accommodation, food and travel guidance.…”

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“…Thus, different typologies of VFR hosts and guests have been developed to help better understand their roles and behaviours. Classifications of VFR guests and VFR hosts are often based on their main purpose of visit, choice of accommodation, by their guesting/hosting behaviour (Backer, 2012;Shani & Uriely 2012;Yousuf & Backer, 2017).…”

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Interactive mobilities: Conceptualising VFR tourism of international students

Tran

Moore

Shone

2018

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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The relationship between tourism and migration that has resulted from increasing global mobility is a complex phenomenon. As part of that phenomenon, research has shown a strong connection between international education, particularly at the tertiary level, and tourism. In particular, international students have been found to have a strong impact on the tourism industry of their study country. This paper investigates a specific form of tourism in which international students are involved: Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism. It details an initial conceptual understanding of the relationship between international students and VFR tourism. A conceptual framework is developed to help illustrate this relationship, highlight new avenues for research, and indicate how this relationship connects with the wider tourism-migration literature. The framework suggests that the interface between VFR tourism and international students can be explained through a number of aspects, two of which are addressed in the paper: VFR travel behaviour and host-guest dynamics in VFR tourism of international students. These aspects are analysed throughout the pre-, during, and post study periods. The paper sheds further light on emerging VFR related concepts -such as VFR tourism in a third place -as well as theories regarding the notion of hosts and guests in the modern mobile world. Suggestions for future research are also provided.

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Hosting Friends Versus Hosting Relatives: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Identifying active resident hosts of VFR visitors

Identifying active resident hosts of VFR visitors

The Development of Social and Cultural Capitals for Immigrant Hosts of VFR Travellers

Interactive mobilities: Conceptualising VFR tourism of international students

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