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HOTREC ‘MEAL-SHARING’ PLATFORM POLICY PAPER – MAY 2018
Terminology
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‘Meal-sharing’
- A generic
term relating to the on-demand
supply of food and drink
through online platforms that
connect home restaurants with
consumers seeking food and
drink-related activities such
as privately-hosted meals or
cooking classes.
Platforms
-
An
online
marketplace (e.g. Airbnb, Eatwith,
WithLocals) through which meals
and related food and drink
activities are arranged, and the
relating financial transactions are
processed.
Destination authority
- The
authority responsible for planning
and managing tourism activity
in a destination, including the
supervision, control, licensing and
the management of legislation
relating to food and drink
preparation and sales.
PEOPLE
Host
- An individual or a business who or which supplies
food and drink to guests, in their own home or a non-registered
venue, with the contact with the guest arranged via an online
platform.
Guest
- an individual who consumes the food and drink
supplied by the host.
LOCATION
Regulated restaurant
- Restaurants operating in
dedicated premises, with the appropriate licences and/or
registered with the competent public authorities and subject
to regular official controls relating to the nature of their food
and drink preparation and service.
Home restaurant
- A private individual’s residence that
is used to prepare meals for sale and/or host paying guests for
a meal or other food-related activity.
ACTIVITIES
Ambassador programme
- An individual such as a
local entrepreneur or travel agent who acts as a representative
to a platform, promoting the platform in a specific location in
order to attract hosts and guests to use it. The individual will
typically oversee the activities of hosts in his or her area and
ensure compliance with the platform’s standards of product
quality and marketing.
Cooking classes
- Informal learning session on
food preparation (in this case not in the pursuit of officially-
recognised qualifications).
Show cooking
- Food preparation performed in front of
an audience.