1. Host Community
Tourism, by its very definition, takes place at a location distant from one’s hometown. The community a tourist is visiting is often termed the host community. Local residents of the hose community share facilities and services with the quests to the area. In this way, the town and its inhabitants become ‘hosts’ to the visitors.
A host community is composed of four resources.
1.1 Local residents.
The most obvious resource is the local residents, the hosts themselves. They interact directly or indirectly with tourists on many levels: for example, serving tourists at restaurants or in retail stores, enjoying the local parks with them, or talking with visitors while waiting in line at the local amusement park.