Morticia
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What's your opinion on B&B's being at a turning point in a culture that seems to be afraid of meeting up with a difference of opinion? We know that we get a lot of different guests staying, basically guests who either have an open mind about travel and meeting new people or have figured out that the B&B they have chosen has the same opinions they do.
You generally don't have to concern yourself with the opinions of the guests in the other 5000 rooms at a big hotel, but if you're sitting down eating breakfast with someone with highly divergent views from your own, you might have to listen to that person.
Anyway, I read a blog last night on quelling the fears of your guests. And I'm thinking some of the number 1 fears out there for guests are having to meet strangers, having to share space with strangers and no privacy. Strangers in this case not meaning someone who might do them physical harm but someone whose opinions they just don't know.
And then I thought about previous guests who were very certain my beliefs were not theirs and were afraid that they wouldn't 'fit in.' (This is at the door, not even having heard anything from me but, 'Welcome, please come in.')
So the fear is out there. Are we at a crossroads in a society that is happy to sit home and 'social network' rather than actually meeting people? How do we overcome those fears?
You generally don't have to concern yourself with the opinions of the guests in the other 5000 rooms at a big hotel, but if you're sitting down eating breakfast with someone with highly divergent views from your own, you might have to listen to that person.
Anyway, I read a blog last night on quelling the fears of your guests. And I'm thinking some of the number 1 fears out there for guests are having to meet strangers, having to share space with strangers and no privacy. Strangers in this case not meaning someone who might do them physical harm but someone whose opinions they just don't know.
And then I thought about previous guests who were very certain my beliefs were not theirs and were afraid that they wouldn't 'fit in.' (This is at the door, not even having heard anything from me but, 'Welcome, please come in.')
So the fear is out there. Are we at a crossroads in a society that is happy to sit home and 'social network' rather than actually meeting people? How do we overcome those fears?