Hostels take people over shorter periods, like weekends. Dorms have people for 3-6 months so they can complete an internship.
Hostels are fairly transactional. Dorms involve community responsibilities, including from the residents. This is everything from helping sort clutter each week to running a really cool house every year for the local trick-or-treaters.
Pensions are things where you don't have to work. This is a job, not a full-time job, but it still does require work. There is an aspect of running the place (we order a LOT of toilet paper from Costco) but also we are responsible for a community. We once had a resident whose parent died when they lived here, and yesterday a resident was hit by a car while biking to work (a long way from our place, and yes the doctor said he is fine. He more or less only lost some mustache).
These folks are sometimes a long way from home, often quite young (early undergrad), and sometimes foreign. We are their community out here, and often act as a sort of designated older sibling when stuff really gets real.
Hehe yes, I didn't remember the term in english, in my country a pension gives you a bed sometimes shared and sometimes on a private room but no food, but they have a kitchen where you can cook.
Anyways from what the OP describes his business is much more intensive and involved with his guests.
Hostels are fairly transactional. Dorms involve community responsibilities, including from the residents. This is everything from helping sort clutter each week to running a really cool house every year for the local trick-or-treaters.
Pensions are things where you don't have to work. This is a job, not a full-time job, but it still does require work. There is an aspect of running the place (we order a LOT of toilet paper from Costco) but also we are responsible for a community. We once had a resident whose parent died when they lived here, and yesterday a resident was hit by a car while biking to work (a long way from our place, and yes the doctor said he is fine. He more or less only lost some mustache).
These folks are sometimes a long way from home, often quite young (early undergrad), and sometimes foreign. We are their community out here, and often act as a sort of designated older sibling when stuff really gets real.