Chambre d'hôtes

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A chambre d'hôtes is slightly different from the Anglo-Saxon Bed and breakfast. Indeed, at the origin, the B&B was developed in order to answer demand from tourists or businesspeople who could not afford the cost of a hotel. The B&B was also a means of supplementing ones' income. Today, this definition has changed and would be comparable to a chambre d'hôte but the "french chambre d'hôte" is really specific. Indeed, very often, the peculiarity but also the beauty of staying in a chambre d’hôte is that they are usually located in the heart of rural villages. The first objective of creating that type of "establishment" was to help the rural population, develop tourism in villages threatened by urbanism.