Possible Clues:

• Innkeeper
• The Loire cook works in the hospitality business
• Manager of place to stay
• Person such as Basil Fawlty?
• Inn-keeper
• Hospitality entrepreneur
• Pension owner from the Loire, perhaps
• Landlord's comparatively virtuous about time for vacating
• Conrad Hilton, e.g.
• Warm to sweetheart with liar, say, for one hiring out rooms