Provider: Ingenta Connect Database: Ingenta Connect Content: application/x-research-info-systems TY - ABST AU - Zamani-Farahani, Hamira TI - Home Stay: A Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship Business JO - Tourism Analysis PY - 2011-10-01T00:00:00/// VL - 16 IS - 5 SP - 525 EP - 533 KW - HOST– KW - GUEST INTERACTION KW - HOME STAY PROGRAM KW - TOURISTS' EXPERIENCES KW - HOST ATTITUDES KW - RURAL TOURISM KW - MALAYSIA N2 - This article addresses the concept and characteristics of home stay programs as a new rural tourism product. Home stay is a combination of rural tourism, agro-farm tourism, cultural tourism, and recreation activity operated under minimal funding by small entrepreneurs from villages, by assistance of the government in Malaysia. This study presents an overview on the development, procedures, operation, evaluation, and limitations of the home stay program as a rural tourism entrepreneurship business. Implications of the results of this study and suggestions are also discussed. UR - https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ta/2011/00000016/00000005/art00002 M3 - doi:10.3727/108354211X13202764960546 UR - https://doi.org/10.3727/108354211X13202764960546 ER -