Bed and breakfast

Bed and breakfast (typically shortened to B&B or BnB) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast. Bed and breakfasts are often private family homes and typically have between four and eleven rooms, with six being the average.^[1] In addition, a B&B usually has the hosts living in the house.

For other uses, see Bed & Breakfast (disambiguation).

Bed and breakfast is also used to describe the level of catering included in a hotel's room prices, as opposed to room-only, half-board or full-board.

International differences[edit]

Australia[edit]

There are approximately 7,000 B&Bs in Australia.^[2]

The B&B industry in Australia generates about $132 million in annual revenue.

China[edit]

In China, expatriates have remodelled traditional structures in quiet picturesque rural areas and opened a few rustic boutique hotels with minimum amenities. Most patrons are foreign tourists but they are growing in popularity among Chinese domestic tourists.^[3]

India[edit]

In India, the government is promoting the concept of bed & breakfast.^[4] The government is doing this to increase tourism, especially keeping in view of the demand for hotels during the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.^[5] They have classified B&Bs in two categories – Gold B&Bs, and Silver B&Bs. All B&Bs must be approved by the Ministry of Tourism, who will then categorize it as Gold or Silver based upon a list of pre-defined criteria.^[6]

Ireland[edit]

In Ireland, B&Bs can be townhouses, farmhouses or country house. There are about 3000 B&Bs^[7] spread throughout the country, 750 of which are certified for meeting quality standards by Fáilte Ireland.^[8]