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A hostess is to take care of guests with travel or airlines (see flight attendants ) and major events (congresses, fairs) salaried woman, foreign language skills and usually also an appealing appearance as required by the appropriate manners, usually. In Germany, most hostesses are usually mediated by specific agencies, which are also in the leading trade fair cities have their registered office in the rule.

Occurrence

Especially with car shows the hostesses are often barely dressed to attract the attention of visitors towards the booths. In order to curb the Zurschaustellen bare skin, the organizers of the Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 in Los Angeles were forced in 2006 to impose a fine of $ 5,000 against exhibitors who had naked or semi- naked models at their booth.

Of these, to distinguish clearly are employees of escort agencies ( Escorts ), which today are also often referred to as a hostess, but offering only exactly one person their company and services. As a masculine form of Hostess has here become established as the host name, a gentleman host is a paid male escort for ladies or gentlemen traveling.

Etymology

The word " hostess " comes from Latin hospes ( host, guest), the ospete over vulgar Latin (h) and Old French ( h) ostes with female form ( h) ostesse hôte to modern French, developed hôtesse. It was taken over in the Middle Ages from French into English and then naturalized from English hostess ( hostess ) since the mid-20th century in German. Although borrowed from English, it is emphasized as the French word on the second syllable instead of the first in German and often written with a French suffix -esse as " hostess ".

Known hostesses

Silvia Sommerlath, now Queen of Sweden, made at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich as a caring hostess the acquaintance of her future husband, Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden.