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The Bed and Breakfast scheme (B&Bs) is to provide a clean and affordable place for foreign and domestic tourists alike, including an opportunity for foreign tourists to stay with an Indian family to experience Indian customs and traditions and relish authentic Indian cuisine.

The bed and breakfast (registration and regulation) ordinance 2007 allows people, who intend to offer their house to guests, through a system of registration by a prescribed authority. The condition is that there should be adequate space to house the guests. The owner should be able to provide quality food prepared in hygienic conditions and proper sleeping arrangements to the guests. The scheme is different from the paying guest accommodation scheme, which provides for long-term and medium-term stay.

Any residential premises with one to five rooms with attached bath and toilet, having adequate supply of electricity and water with parking facilities can register under this scheme. Hygienic food and privacy are to be maintained. The bed and breakfast accommodation is a common phenomenon in the West. People offer their houses for guests to stay and breakfast is served in the morning, either in the bedroom or more commonly, in a dining room or the host’s kitchen. And bathrooms are in most cases private. This kind of accommodation is also simply referred as B&B.

Usually bed and breakfast accommodation (B&Bs) may operate either as a primary occupation or as a secondary source of income. Staff often consists of the host and members of their family who live there. Staying at a bed and breakfast accommodation (B&Bs) can offer better access to popular locations which may not be convenient to the city centre or where the location’s other lodging may be situated. The bed and breakfast accommodations (B&BS) are usually located closer to locations where other larger lodging competitors may not place a guest accommodation because of market conditions. But in large cities where hotels can be very expensive and rooms are scanty, bed and breakfast accommodation (B&Bs) can be available in the city limits too.

India is now slowly catching up with this novel concept of bed and breakfast accommodation (B&Bs) due to several reasons. With lakhs of tourists coming to the country for different reasons like holidaying, medical treatment, business, etc. hotels are finding it difficult to cope up to the pressure. Moreover there are many beautiful and exquisite tourists’ spots where building hotels and other forms of lodging options are not economically viable.

This is where bed and breakfast accommodation (B&B) or in that case Homestays come to the rescue! India is known for its hospitality. So Homestays and bed and breakfast accommodation (B&B) are perhaps the best options that travellers and tourists can opt for. Not only do they provide you with affordable accommodation, both Homestays and bed and Breakfast accommodations (B&B) can give you access to mingle, know and enjoy the colourful Indian culture in its true form.