hostess
A hostess is a woman who is employed to look after guests at travel or airlines or major events ( congresses , trade fairs ). Adequate manners, usually foreign language skills and usually an attractive appearance are required of her. In Germany, most of the hostesses at trade fairs are usually placed by special agencies, which are usually also based in the leading trade fair cities.
tasks
The area of responsibility of a hostess in the coach industry includes, in addition to the on-board service, i.e. B. the serving of drinks and food, as well as the boarding of the guests, including seat allocation and often also collecting the fare. The tasks of a hostess in an airplane correspond to those of a flight attendant . In the aviation industry, this job is more full-time, in the bus industry more part-time.
Occur
At auto shows in particular, the hostesses are often barely dressed in order to draw the visitors' attention to the respective stands. In order to curb the exposure of bare skin, the organizers of the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 in Los Angeles in 2006 felt compelled to impose a fine of 5,000 US dollars on exhibitors who had naked or half-naked models at their stand.
Demarcation
Distinguish clearly are of escort agencies ( Escorts mediated) companions (eg. As travel companions), which today are also often referred to as hostesses, but only just offer a person their company and sometimes erotic and sexual services. As the male form of hostess, the term host has partly established itself, a gentleman host is a paid male companion for women or men on trips (cf. gigolo ).
etymology
The word "hostess" goes back to the Latin hospes ("host", "guest"), which developed from vulgar Latin (h) ospete and old French (h) ostes with the female form (h) ostesse to new French hôte, hôtesse . It was already adopted from Old French into Middle English in the Middle Ages and then naturalized from New English hostess in German since the middle of the 20th century . Although borrowed from English, in German, like the French word, it is emphasized on the second instead of the first syllable and is often also written with the French suffix -esse as "hostesse".
Well-known hostesses
- Silvia Sommerlath , now Queen of Sweden, made the acquaintance of her future husband, Carl XVI, as a hostess at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Gustaf of Sweden .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article from Welt Online, found on August 29, 2009
- ↑ Article from Web.de, found on September 17, 2009 ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ LA Times, May 11, 2006, found September 1, 2009
