It covers a broad range of activities including prostitution and pimping, as well as other forms of hustling, such as selling black-market and counterfeit goods, providing private taxi services and serving as informal tourist guides. The term can also be applied to those activities of professional white-collar workers that generate income from interaction with peers abroad.[12] The word derives from the Spanish jinete ("horserider"). Jinetear, meaning "to jockey", refers to the competitive act of riding a horse for economic reward.[13] A male practitioner is a jinetero, a female jinetera.