Hospitality is NOT and should NEVER be linked with politics
Hospitality?is the relationship between a guest and a host, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill, including the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers.??
Louis Chevalier de Jaucourt describes hospitality in the?"encyclopédie" as the virtue of a great soul that cares for the whole universe through the ties of humanity.??
This great book “L' Encyclopédie”?or also called “le dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers”? was a general?encyclopedia?published in?France?between 1751 and 1772. It was edited by?Denis Diderot, a French philosopher,?art critic, and writer.
Denis Diderot was born in?Langres,?Champagne.? Do not miss to stop over this beauticul city if you may pass nearby Bourgogne province. It’s not far from Dijon and if you visit Beaune and may have time, just push few more kilometers to see this medieval town, the hometown of Diderot in the east of France.??
Hospitality is also the way people treat others, that is, the service of welcoming and receiving guests for example in hotels. Hospitality plays a fundamental role to augment or decrease the volume of sales of an organization.?
The word hospitality has a long history and his etymology can be traced back from various ancient cultures in which it?involved welcoming the stranger and offering him food, shelter, and safety.?
Derives from the Arab?hospes, meaning "host", "guest", or "stranger".?Hospes?is formed from?hostis, which means "stranger" or "enemy" (the latter being where terms like "hostile" derive).?
By?metonymy the Latin word?hospital?means a guest-chamber, guest's lodging, an inn. Hospes/hostis?is thus the root for the English words?host, hospitality,?hospice,?hostel?and?hotel.?
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Voir en fran?ais les mots: h?tellerie, h?tel, ma?tre d’h?tel.?
Hospitality should stay from politics by essence, ethics and from this DNA. ?
Nowadays, we may forgot the origin of hospitality and the definition from Diderot L'Encyclopédie; however we should never forget the ethics and for a perennial ambition, the best recommendation will be to stay away from politics. ?
It involves showing respect for one's guests, providing for their needs, and treating them as equals.
In a single and short sentence : “everyone is welcome”.?
Mer?i Diderot.
Haha, the moment we host politicians, it’s already gotten political… and what if we host the masters of politicians, what do we call it then…?