Family background may be significant where there is a family history of starting and running businesses in a particular trade, industry or profession. There are many examples; the Forte family ran hotels and restaurants, and Rocco Forte launched his own hotel chain; Stelmar tankers was the first business started by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, whose father also ran a ship¬ping business. Experience within the family may be influential, but there are also many cases of sons and daughters deciding not to follow in the 'family footsteps', for example rural people moving away from family farming businesses, or second-generation Indian and Chinese young people in the UK deciding not to join the retail or food businesses started by