Given the fact that definitional distinctions of hospitality are
tendencies and not iron clad absolutes, the notion of hospitality
should not be confused with hospitable behavior, which could be
conceptualized as enacted hospitality. Burgess’ (1982) and Lashay
(2000) look at hospitable behavior in three realms – private, public
(social), and institutional (commercial) – and the interactions
between hosts and tourists occur on all the three dimensions of
hospitable behavior. Taking into consideration Di Domenico and
Lynch’s (2007) claim on the blurriness of these rigid boundaries,
this study adopts Lashay’s (2000) framework and defines private
hospitality as provision of hospitality in one’s home as well as
highly personalized mode of host–guest interactions. The public
domain of hospitality implies dealing with strangers in one’s enactment
of hospitality, attesting to more generic tourist and host
gazes (Urry, 2002; Moufakkir and Reisinger, 2013). Commercial
hospitable behavior is based on money exchange and limited to giving
pleasure to guests without further reciprocity (Lashay, 2000).