A houseboat is a redesigned boat to be used primarily as a human dwelling like a regular house. The most common pontoon type is a floating house mounted on top of a pontoon. Most houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored or kept stationary at a fixed point. These houseboats are common as permanent dwellings in Southeast Asia; whereas in places like Australia and Europe they may serve more frequently as secondary homes or vacation homes or for tourism purposes.
On Murray River in Australia there are many motorized, pontoon-based houseboats with two or more bedrooms; some of these houseboats have levels or storeys. Some are privately owned as either a primary place of residence or as a holiday resort. These are also available for rent with accommodation for four to twelve persons. Europe offers some of the costliest houseboats in the canals of Amsterdam, Netherlands, which even has houseboat hotels. In India, houseboats are common on the backwaters of Kerala and on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
Houseboating in the United States became popular only in the 1940s; the Lake Cumberland in Kentucky is considered the birthplace of...
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