@Lizzie, i thank you so much for choosing me among the participants of the second Month of Celebration 2018 in the Community Center .
Hosting practice is different from theorique one. Before i only had the hosting idea, general idea, that a guest or more, in different times, come to your house, stay in your house some days and after leave the house. It was just a composite idea and could not tolerate disassembly. But after my experience with Airbnb the idea changed. Really i learnt, and i am still learning, that Hosting activity has roles and specific conditions, if one wants to practice hosting appropriately.
Hosting has differrent roles. In which a host needs to communicate with guests, meets and greets them, cleans, from time to time when there is a so quicke reservation, cook, cause i like to prepare breakfast for my guests...........and so on. Hosting, for me, is a new speciality with different roles, which need a set of conditions, to be hosting in certain quality.
So, hosting requires some conditions, which are neccessary for appropriate hosting. We can define them in four : Discipline, concentration, patience and supreme concern to master.
1 - The discipline : cause one as a host should have the sense of responsibility for an activity in his life that has special laws, duties and obligations, which he needs to respect and, at the same time, continually develop.
2 - The concentration : A host needs from time to time to set with him self and think about hosting or how to practice it, things which needs to add, change, develop, learn......or other things, that are neccessary, to some extent, for hosting mastery.
3 - The patience : is also a factor essential for praticing hosting.
4 – The supreme concern to master. It's a kind of interest which make one has the willing for developing his hosting quality.
I think, it could be a subjective point of view and not objective one, that these four conditions or factors are, generally, so neccessary for the roles of hosting activity. The differences only depend on the quantity and quality that one uses those conditions for progressing hosting roles, which olso depend on the experience, persons,, cultural deferences,.…….that make them demonstrate in different forms.
One year and about two months that i am a host, so my experience with Airbnb have made me gain some experiences, which i am sure that it is going to be progressed more and more with time. The more experience one has, the more abilty to develop the quality of hosting practice, hosting roles and and its associated conditions.
I wish you all and for everyone Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2019.
Thanks,
Miloud