You might host a visitor from a pharmaceutical company who will do a few experiments, or you may perform a few experiments for the company yourself.
As a solution, endurance crews not only received Progress ferries but also hosted a succession of visitors who would arrive in a fresh Soyuz, stay for a week or so, and then leave in the older Soyuz so that a usable crew-return craft was always available.
Police Chief Jaroslav Spisiak said this week the Roma family that was killed led a "rich social life" in which they hosted a steady stream of visitors.
After Tanning and Ernst married in 1946, the couple moved to Sedona, Ariz., where they hosted a bohemian crowd of visitors, including writers Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas and choreographer George Balanchine (for whom she designed sets).
In 2012, the city hosted a record 52 million visitors, whose spending produced a whopping $55.3 billion in economic impact.
Scenic Newport Beach, long popular with tourists, hosted a special group of visitors over the past week: BCS title game teams and their fans.
California hosted a record 251 million visitors last year, up 3% from the previous high of 243 million in 2013, according to Visit California, the state's nonprofit tourism agency.
Add to this the enormous cost of hosting an important visitor, bringing in many experts to advise on strategy, and the cost of the technology and implementation itself.
Yet the NRA, which hosted an estimated 70,000 visitors at its annual conference in Indianapolis at the weekend, has long dismissed Bloomberg as an east coast billionaire lacking popular support.
