Advice to Schools and Faculty Hosting Visitors?

I'm sorry no one has commented yet on Eduardo's post seeking advice on how visitors can make their experience a success.  For what it's worth, I've had three visits, all of more or less a podium-fill character.  My first two jobs in teaching, before hitting the tenure track, were visits at Iowa and San Diego.  At Iowa at the time, the school had a habit of hiring a couple of people every year to teach substantive first-year courses with a small-group format, meaning that we also had responsibility for much of their legal research and writing requirement.  Things may have changed since then.  At San Diego, I spent a lovely visiting year (there is no such thing as an unlovely year in San Diego) teaching three substantive courses.  Later, I did a podium fill as a pseudo-Rick Garnett at Notre Dame.  I mention the details because of those first two visits: teaching candidates who for whatever reason didn't make it in the hiring process but are nonetheless promising candidates should keep their eyes open for opportunities of this sort, some of which are word-of-mouth affairs and some of which are posted in the weekly job openings email on SSRN.  (I got my San Diego job by applying after seeing a posting on SSRN.)  Those jobs not only got me a full-time teaching gig, but were tremendous learning experiences and made me many of my best friends in the legal academy.  Have hope!

In any event, having done so many visits, I'd like to double down on Eduardo's post and urge us all to think about visiting jobs not from the perspective of the visitor, but from the perspective of the host.  Whether you're talking about a look-see visitor or a podium filler, hosting a visitor should be seen as carrying a "host" of obligations on the part of the hosting institution and its faculty.  Of course visitors ought to be thinking about how to make their visit a success; but the greater part of the burden surely falls on the host.  Does your faculty make a concerted effort to welcome its visitors, say with a party or coffee gathering, or does it just send around a cursory "please welcome so-and-so" email?  Do you know all your visitors, not just the ones who are there on a look-see basis?  Have you invited them out to lunch?  Shared some of the hidden norms of the school?  Walked them around the place?  Made sure to include spouses, partners, and children in your invitations?  

I think it's always well worth talking about our own burdens and obligations, and I would just add to Eduardo's post the point that a successful visit is a two-sided affair.  Commenters are welcome to share their own observations and experiences.  I will say that my wife and I, after having visited in a couple of places, vowed to make sure to include visitors in our social lives once we became part of the permanent faculty family.  I'll also add that we have not always been true to our word.  Eduardo's post is a valuable reminder that as hosts, we have duties of our own.