Che lagarto hostel: um jeito diferente de hospedar

This article intends to address the commercial hospitality at Hostel Che Lagarto Copacabana, focusing on the proposals by author Camargo (2004). Such type of lodging has a different way of accommodating guests, because it offers a friendly and economical environment with good quality services that try to satisfy the guests, further providing an exchange of experiences at the place, through a cultural interchange among tourists from all over the world. The methodology used in this article is an exploratory qualitative research, whose general purpose was to study commercial hospitality, focusing on the categories of receiving, lodging, feeding, and entertaining. The data collected made us see the hostel under a different light as a commercial space, because it is no longer only a place to lodge for profitable purposes, but further, it is a place where the employees care to make the atmosphere friendly, and chiefly to keep learning every day how to receive the guests so well that they will come back to stay there in the future.