hotel is an establishment that provides short term paid accommodation. The facilities provided can range from simple in-room mattresses to large suites with larger, higher-quality beds, cabinets, refrigerators and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, flat-screen televisions and en-suite bathrooms. Smaller hotels with cheaper rates may only offer the most basic guest services and amenities. Larger hotels at higher prices can provide additional facilities such as swimming pools, business centers (with computers, printers and other office equipment), childcare, conference and event facilities, tennis or basketball courts, gymnasium, restaurants, spa and social service functions. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B & amp; B) to allow guests to identify their rooms. Several boutiques, upscale hotels have individually decorated rooms. Some hotels offer food as part of room and dining arrangements. In the UK, the hotel is required by law to serve food and drinks to all guests within specified hours. In Japan, the capsule hotel provides small rooms suitable for sleeping and shared bathroom facilities.
The precursor to a modern hotel is a medieval European inn. For a period of about 200 years since the mid-17th century, the coach inn serves as a place for lodging for coach travelers. The Inn began to serve richer clients in the mid-18th century. One of the first hotels in the modern sense opened in Exeter in 1768. The hotel mushroomed throughout Western Europe and North America in the early 19th century, and luxury hotels began to appear in the later part of the 19th century.
Hotel operations vary in size, function, complexity, and cost. Most major hotels and hospitality companies have set industry standards to classify hotel types. The hotel's top-class facilities offer luxurious amenities, full-service accommodation, on-site restaurant and the highest level of personal service, such as concierge, room service, and clothing presses. A full-service hotel often includes upscale full-service facilities with a large number of fully-equipped accommodation, a full-service restaurant on site and on-site facilities. Boutique hotels are smaller, non-branded independent hotels that often contain upscale amenities. Small to medium-sized hotels offer limited facilities on site. Economy hotels are small to medium-sized hotels that offer basic accommodation with little or no service. Hotels with long-term stays are small to medium-sized hotels that offer accommodation with long-term services longer than traditional hotels.
Timeshare and destination clubs are forms of property ownership involving ownership of individual accommodation units for seasonal use. A motel is a small, low-rise inn with direct access to each room from the car park. Boutique hotels are usually hotels with unique surroundings or intimate setting. A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London. Some hotels are built specifically as the destination itself, for example in casinos and holiday resorts.
Most companies are managed by General Managers who function as chief executive officers (often referred to as "Hotel Managers"), department heads overseeing departments within the hotel (eg food service), middle managers, administrative staff, and line-level supervisors. The organizational chart and the volume of job positions and hierarchies vary by hotel, function and class size, and are often determined by the ownership of hotels and managing companies.
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Etymology
The word hotel comes from the French hÃÆ'Â'tel (originally from the same origin as hospital ), which refers to the French version of the build viewing of visitors which are frequent, and provide care, rather than places that offer accommodation. In contemporary French usage, hÃÆ'Â'tel now has the same meaning as the English term, and hÃÆ'Â'tel particulier is used for the old meaning, as well as "hÃÆ'Â' tel" in some names a place like HÃÆ'Â'tel-Dieu (in Paris), which has been a hospital since the Middle Ages. The French Spelling, with circumflex, is also used in English, but is now uncommon. The circumflex replaces 's' found in previous mail hostels, which from time to time take on new meaning, but are highly related. Grammatically, the hotel usually takes a definite article - hence "The Astoria Hotel" or simply "The Astoria."
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History
Facilities that offer hospitality to tourists have been the features of the earliest civilizations. In ancient Greco-Roman and Persian culture, hospitals for healing and rest were built in hot springs. Japan Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, founded in 705, is officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest hotel in the world. During the Middle Ages, various religious orders in monasteries and monasteries will offer accommodation to travelers on the road.
The precursor to modern hotels is a medieval European inn, possibly dating back to the rules of Ancient Rome. This will provide for the needs of travelers, including food and lodging, stabilizers and food for piggyback (s) and fresh horses for letter coaches. Examples of famous lodgings in London include George and Tabard. The typical layout of an inn has an inner court with a bedroom on either side, with a kitchen and living room in front and a cage in the back.
For a period of about 200 years from the mid-17th century, the coach inn serves as a place for lodging for coach travelers (in other words, embankment house). Coaching innkeepers train horse teams to stagecoaches and coach letters and replace the tired team with new teams. Traditionally they are seven miles apart, but this is highly dependent on the terrain.
Some British cities have as many as ten lodging and the rivalry among them is very intense, not only for the income of the carriage carrier but for income for food and beverages provided for rich passengers. By the end of the century, the training lodges were run more professionally, with regular schedules followed and fixed menus for food.
The Inn began to serve wealthier clients in the mid-18th century, and as a result grew in the splendor and level of service provided. One of the first hotels in the modern sense opened in Exeter in 1768, although the idea was only really caught in the early 19th century. In 1812 Mivart's Hotel opened its doors in London, then changed its name to Claridge's.
Hotels sprouted throughout Western Europe and North America in the 19th century, and luxury hotels, including the Savoy Hotel in Britain and the Ritz hotel chain in London and Paris and Tremont House and Astor House in the United States, began to emerge. in the latter part of the century, serving very rich customers.
International scale
The hotel caters to travelers from different countries and languages, as no country dominates the travel industry.
Type
Hotel operations vary in size, function, and cost. Most major hotels and hotel companies operating hotels have set a widely accepted industry standard to classify hotel types. Common categories include the following:
Luxury
A luxury hotel offering high-quality facilities, full-service accommodation, on-site full-service restaurant, and the highest level of personal and professional services. Luxury hotels are usually classified with at least a Five Diamond rating by the American Automobile Association or the Five Star hotel rating depending on the country and local classification standards. Examples include: InterContinental, Fairmont, Conrad, Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, The Peninsula, Grand Hyatt, JW Marriott, and The Ritz-Carlton.
Boutique and lifestyle hotels
Boutique hotels are independent hotels with no smaller brands that often feature top-notch facilities of any size in a unique or intimate setting with full-service accommodations. These hotels are generally 100 rooms or less. A lifestyle hotel is a branded property that appeals to guests with a particular lifestyle or personal image. They are usually full of services and are sometimes classified as luxury. The main characteristics of boutique hotels and lifestyles is their focus in providing a unique guest experience rather than just providing lodging. Examples include W Hotels, Shangri-La Hotels, Sheraton, Andaz, Hoshino Resorts, and Banyan Tree.
Full service
Full service hotels often provide a variety of guest services and on-site facilities. Facilities typically found include on-site food and beverage (room service and restaurant), meeting and conference facilities and services, fitness center and business center. The hotel with full service has quality ranging from medium to luxurious. This classification is based on the quality of facilities and facilities offered by the hotel. Examples include: Holiday Inn, Kimpton Hotel, Hilton, Marriott, and Hyatt Regency.
Focus or select a service
Small to medium-sized hotels that offer limited facilities in places that only serve and market to special tourist demographics, such as single business travelers. Most focused or select service hotels may still offer full service accommodation but may lack recreational facilities such as an on-site restaurant or swimming pool. Examples include Hyatt Place, Courtyard by Marriott, and Hilton Garden Inn.
Economy and service limited
Small to medium-sized hotels that offer facilities in very limited places and often only offer basic accommodation with little or no service, these facilities usually only serve and market to a tourist-specific demographic, like a budget minded looking "no-frills" accommodation. Hotels with limited services often lack on-site restaurants but in return may offer limited free food and beverage facilities such as on-site continental breakfast service. In some commonwealth countries, especially India, these types of hotels are also known as cheap hotels. Examples include Ibis Budget, Hampton Inn, Aloft, Holiday Inn Express, Fairfield Inn, Four Points by Sheraton, and Days Inn.
Stay length
Extended stay hotels are small to medium-sized hotels that offer accommodation with long-term services longer than traditional hotels. Hotels with longer stays can offer non-traditional pricing methods such as weekly rates that cater to travelers requiring short-term accommodation for long periods of time. Similar to limited and select hotel services, on-site facilities are usually limited and most extended stay hotels do not have an on-site restaurant. Examples include Staybridge Suites, Candlewood Suites, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton, Residence Inn by Marriott, Elements, and Extended Stay America.
Timeshare and Destination clubs are forms of property ownership also referred to as vacation ownership involving the purchase and ownership of individual accommodation units for seasonal use over a period of time. Timeshare resorts often offer similar facilities to full-service hotels with on-site restaurant (s), swimming pools, recreation areas, and other recreational facilities. Destination clubs on the other hand may offer more exclusive private accommodation such as private homes in an eco-style setting. Examples of timeshare brands include Hilton Grand Vacations, Marriott Vacation Club International, Westgate Resort, Disney Vacation Club, and Holiday Inn Club Holiday.
Motel
A motel, short for "motor hotel", is a small, low-rise inn similar to a limited-service, low-cost hotel, but usually with direct access to each room from the parking lot. The motel is built to cater to the road travelers, including travelers on holiday trips and workers driving for their jobs (peddlers, truckers, etc.). Common during the 1950s and 1960s, motels were often located adjacent to the main highway, where they were built on cheap land on the edge of town or along the highway.
The construction of new motels was rare in the 2000s because hotel chains had built economies for a limited price, a limited service franchise property on a highway that competed for most of the same customers, largely saturating the market in the 1990s. The motel is still handy in a less populated area for tourists driving, but the more the area becomes, the more hotels move to meet the demand for accommodation. Many of the motels that continue to operate have joined the national franchise chain, often renaming themselves as hotels, inns, or inns.
Microstay
The hotel can offer rooms for microstay, a type of booking for less than 24 hours in which the customer chooses check-in time and length of stay. This allows the hotel to increase revenue by reselling the same room several times a day.
Management
Hotel management is a globally accepted professional career field and an area of ​​academic study. Degree programs such as hospitality management studies, business titles, and/or certification programs formally prepare hotel managers for industry practice.
Most hotel companies consist of the General Manager who serves as chief executive (often referred to as the "Hotel Manager"), department heads overseeing hotel departments, middle managers, administrative staff, and line-level supervisors. The organizational chart and the volume of job positions and hierarchies vary according to hotel size, functionality, and are often determined by ownership of hotels and managing companies.
Unique and special hotels
Historic inn and boutique hotel
Boutique hotels are usually hotels with unique surroundings or intimate setting. Some hotels have gained notoriety through tradition, by holding important events or people, such as Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany, which gained fame from the Potsdam Conference of World War II allies Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin in 1945. The Taj Mahal Palace & amp; Tower in Mumbai is one of the most famous and historic hotels in India due to its relationship with the Indian independence movement. Some companies have given names for certain foods or beverages, as is the case with the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, USA where first Waldorf Salad was first made or Sacher Hotel in Vienna, Austria, home of Sachertorte. Others have achieved fame by associating with dishes or cocktails made on their premises, such as the Hotel de Paris where the Suzette crÃÆ'ªpe is found or the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, where Singapore Sling cocktails are made.
A number of hotels have entered the public consciousness through popular culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its relationship with the Irving Berlin song, 'Puttin' at the Ritz '. The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is renowned for its literary gathering, the Algonquin Round Table, and the Chelsea Hotel, also in New York City, has been the subject of a number of Nancy's stabbed songs and scenes. Spungen (allegedly by his girlfriend Sid Vicious).
Resort hotels
Some hotels are built specifically as the destination itself to create a captive trade, for example in casinos, amusement parks, and holiday resorts. Although hotels are always built in popular destinations, the hallmark of a resort hotel is that the hotel is pure to serve other attractions, both of which have the same owner.
On the Las Vegas Strip there is a one-upmanship tradition with luxury and luxury hotels in a concentrated area. This trend has now expanded to other resorts around the world, but concentrations in Las Vegas are still the highest in the world: 19 of the world's 24 largest hotels by room count are in the Gaza Strip, totaling more than 67,000 rooms.
In Europe the Center Parcs can be considered a chain of resort hotels, since the sites are mostly man-made (though arranged in natural environments such as state parks) with captive trade, while holiday camps like Butlins and Pontin may not be considered hotel resorts, as they are set at destination traditional holidays that existed before the camp.
Other special hotels
- The Burj al-Arab Hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, built on an artificial island, is structured in the shape of a ship's sail.
- The Library Hotel in New York City is unique in that each of its ten floors is assigned a category of Dewey Decimal System.
- The Jailhotel LÃÆ'¶wengraben in Lucerne, Switzerland is a converted prison now used as a hotel.
- Luxor, hotels and casinos on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA are unusual because of the structure of the pyramid.
- The Liberty Hotel in Boston was once the Charles Street Jail.
- Hotel Kakslauttanen in Finland, iglo glass collection in Lapland that allows you to watch the Northern Lights
- Built in Scotland and completed in 1936, the former seacoast RMSÃ, Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, USA used the first-class stateroom as a hotel, after retiring in 1967 from Transatlantic services.
- The Wigwam Motels use a patented novelty architecture where every motel room is a freestanding concrete or teepee wigwam.
- The Caboose Motel or Red Caboose Inn properties are built from disabled rail cars.
- Worldwide there are several hotels built from converted aircraft.
Hotel Bunker
The Null Stern Hotel in Teufen, Appenzellerland, Switzerland, and the Concrete Fungus in Albania is a former nuclear bunker converted into a hotel.
The cave hotel
Cuevas Pedro Antonio de AlarcÃÆ'³n (named after the author) in Guadix, Spain, as well as several hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey, is famous for being built into natural cave formations, some with underground rooms. The Desert Cave Hotel in Coober Pedy, South Australia was built into the remains of an opal mine.
Cliff hotel
Located on the beach yet high above sea level, these hotels offer unobstructed panoramas and a high sense of privacy without feeling completely isolated. Some examples from around the world are Riosol Hotels in Gran Canaria, Caruso Belvedere Hotels in Amalfi Coast (Italy), Aman Resorts Amankila in Bali, Birkenhead House in Hermanus (South Africa), The Caves in Jamaica, and Caesar Augustus di Capri.
Capsule hotels
Capsule hotels are an economical type hotel that was first introduced in Japan, where people sleep in piles of rectangular containers.
Hotel room days
Some hotels fill daytime occupancy with daily spaces, for example, Rodeway Inn and Suites near Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The daily rooms are booked in a block of hours usually between 8 am and 5 pm, before a regular curfew. This is similar to transit hotels as they attract tourists, however, unlike transit hotels, they do not eliminate the need to bypass Customs.
Garden Hotel
The park hotels, famous for their gardens prior to the hotel, include Gravetye Manor, the home of the designer park of William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with rose gardens by Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Ice, snow, and igloo hotels
The Ice Hotel in JukkasjÃÆ'¤rvi, Sweden, is the first ice hotel in the world; first built in 1990, built every winter and melts every spring. Other ice hotels include Igloo Village in Kakslauttanen, Finland, and Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, Canada. They can also be included in larger ice complexes; for example, Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland lies within the walls of Kemi snow castle; and Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near YllÃÆ'¤s, Finland.
Love Hotel
Love hotels (also 'love motels', especially in Taiwan) are the kind of short-stay hotels found around the world, operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sexual activity, usually for one to three hours, but overnight as an option. The style of building varies from very low to luxurious. In Japan, the love hotel has a history of more than 400 years.
Referral hotel
Referral hotels are hotel chains that offer branding to independently operated hotels; the chain itself is established by or owned by a member of the hotel as a group. Many of the former referral chains have been converted into franchises; the largest surviving member chain is Best Western.
Railway Hotel
The first railroad hotel built for a particular purpose was the Great Western Hotel, which opened adjacent to Reading railway station in 1844, shortly after the Great Western Railway opened its path from London. The building is still there, and although it has been used for other purposes for years, has now become a hotel and member of the Malmaison hotel chain.
Often, railroad companies develop large hotels in their terminals, such as the Midland Hotel, Manchester next to the former Manchester Central Station, and in London which is situated above St Pancras railway station and Charing Cross train station. London also has the Chiltern Court Hotel above the Baker Street train station, there is also a large Canadian railway hotel. They are mostly, but not exclusively, used by those traveling by train.
Hotel bale hay
Guesthouse Maya in Nax Mont-Noble in the Swiss Alps, is the first hotel in Europe built entirely with bales of hay. Because the wall insulation values ​​do not require conventional heating or air conditioning systems, although Maya Guesthouse is built at an altitude of 1,300 meters (4,300 feet) in the Alps.
Hotel transit
The transit hotel is a short-term hotel typically used at international airports where passengers can stay while waiting to change planes. Hotels are usually in the air and do not require a visa to stay or re-enter through security checkpoints.
Hotel Treehouse
Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example Treehotel near PiteÃÆ' ¥, Sweden, House of Costa Rica Trees at Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Reserve, Costa Rica; Hotel Treetops in Aberdare National Park, Kenya; The Ariau Tower is near Manaus, Brazil, in the Rio Negro of the Amazon; and Bayram Tree House in Olympos, Turkey.
Underwater hotels
Some hotels have underwater accommodation, such as the Utter Inn on Lake MÃÆ'¤laren, Sweden. Hydropolis, a project in Dubai, will have suites at the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida requires scuba diving to access its rooms.
Hotel Overwater
The resort island is an island or archipelago containing resorts, hotels, bungalows on the water, restaurants, resorts, and amenities. The Maldives has the resort's most overwater bungalow.
Recordings
Largest
In 2006, Guinness World Records registered First World Hotel in Genting Highlands, Malaysia, as the largest hotel in the world with a total of 6,118 rooms (and which has now been expanded to 7,351 rooms). Hotel Izmailovo in Moscow has the most beds, with 7,500, followed by The Venetian and The Palazzo complex in Las Vegas (7,117 rooms) and the MGM Grand Las Vegas (6,852 rooms) complex.
Oldest
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest operating hotel is Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan. The hotel, first opened in 707 AD has been operated by the same family for forty-six generations. The title was held until 2011 by Hoshi Ryokan, in the Komatsu Onsen area of ​​Japan, which opened in 718, because the history of Nisiyama Onsen is almost unknown.
Highest
The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong claims to be the tallest hotel in the world. Located on the top floor of the International Trade Center in Hong Kong, at 484 meters (1,588 feet) above ground level.
Most expensive purchases
In October 2014, Anbang Insurance Group, based in China, bought the Waldorf Astoria New York in Manhattan for US $ 1.95 billion, making it the most expensive hotel in the world ever sold.
Long-term residence
A number of community leaders were primarily chosen to take semi permanent or permanent residence at the hotel.
- Fashion designer Coco Chanel lives in HÃÆ'Â'tel Ritz, Paris, active and inactive for more than 30 years.
- The inventor Nikola Tesla lived the last ten years of his life at the New Yorker Hotel until he died in his room in 1943.
- Larry Fine (from The Three Stooges) and his family live in the hotel, due to excessive spending habits and dislike of his wife for domestic matters. They first stayed at the President Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where his daughter Phyllis grew up, then the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. It was not until the late 1940s that Larry bought a house in the Los Feliz area of ​​Los Angeles.
- The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and affiliated with Waldorf Towers have been home to many famous people for years including former President Herbert Hoover who lived there from the end of his presidency in 1933 until his death in 1964. General Douglas MacArthur lived His last 14 years in the penthouse of the Waldorf Tower. And composer Cole Porter also spent the last 25 years of his life in an apartment at the Waldorf Towers.
- Billionaire Howard Hughes has lived in the hotel for the last ten years of his life (1966-76), especially in Las Vegas, and Acapulco, Beverly Hills, Boston, Freeport, London, Managua, Nassau, Vancouver, and others.
- Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Vera lived at the Montreux Palace Hotel in Montreux, Switzerland (1961-his death in 1977).
- Actor Richard Harris lives at the Savoy Hotel while in London. Hotel archivist Susan Scott told anecdote that, when she was taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before her death in 2002, she raised her hand and told the visitor "it was her food."
- Egyptian actor Ahmed Zaki has spent the past 15 years at Ramses Hilton Hotel - Cairo.
- British entrepreneur Jack Lyons lived in the Mirador Kempinski Hotel in Switzerland for several years until his death in 2008.
- American actress Elaine Stritch has been living in the Savoy Hotel in London for more than a decade.
- The Uruguayan-Argentine tango composer Horacio Ferrer lived nearly 40 years, from 1976 until his death in 2014, in an apartment within the Alvear Palace Hotel, in Buenos Aires, one of the city's most exclusive hotels.
See also
- List of hotels
- List of hotels
- List of branded hotels
- List of jammed hotel chains
- Casino hotels
- List of casino hotels
- Niche tourism market
- Resort Fees
Industry and career
Human residence type
References
Further reading
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