Talk:Tag:tourism=guest house
There seems to be an unfortunate conflation of Guest House and B&B terms. There is a fairly simple distinction (at least in the UK and Ireland): B&Bs are family homes with occupiers in residence usually with 3 or bedrooms or fewer; Guest Houses are usually larger, are a primary business for the people running them, and may or may not have owner/occupier present. In Britain Guest Houses will have to comply with fire regulations. They are commonest in traditional tourism locations, and may also be used by social services for housing families without accomodation.
In the US B&B often refers to a fairly up-market operation which doesn't fit cleanly in the typical UK / Irish terminology: although ones I've stayed in were owner-occupied. SK53 (talk) 09:02, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Hotel license
To which jurisdiction refers the part "without a hotel license"? Should we really assume on a global level that every hotel must have some kind of license? Please move this into a country specific section. --Dieterdreist (talk) 08:51, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
Staff not available 24/7
The definition currently requires staff not available at all times. What is the tag for a feature which fulfills all other requirements, in particular is not a hotel according to local legislation, but has staff available at all times? Shall it not get the guesthouse tag? —Dieterdreist (talk) 10:28, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Airbnb
How should one tag an Airbnb? Particularly, a whole house for rent? Here is what I have done so far.
--TreeStryder (talk) 16:58, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
- It's fine to use tourism=guest_house if the house is always used as a tourist rental, especially if there are more than one rental units inside, like a typical guest_house (or Bed & Breakfast). There is also another tag tourism=chalet for separate buildings which have their own kitchen, for the exclusive use of one guest party, which might be better in your example. But in your example the name should not be "airbnb" - the name tag is only for the commonly-used name of a feature, not for a description. --Jeisenbe (talk) 07:42, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
- If you are fairly certain it's only on Airbnb, perhaps a network=Airbnb could describe it. I have seen some groups/series/chains of listings that would need to be described by a brand=* in between, and they aren't really carrying "Airbnb" as a brand. ---- Kovposch (talk) 13:28, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you. Your input is very helpful. --TreeStryder (talk) 14:14, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
- It depends whatever it is a signed location with full time rental, something more discrete or an occasional rare rental and otherwise used as home. In general booking/payment method is not changing much. brand=airbnb - is it actually airbnb branded? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 19:34, 17 October 2020 (UTC)