Презентация "Types of Hotels"

Types of Hotels

Voronina M.V.

2018

The hotels can be categorized depending upon their size, location, target market, and ownership.

Hotel Types by Size

Hotels are categorized by the number of rooms to which service is provided. For example:

• Below 200 rooms – Very Small
• Up to 200 rooms – Small
• 200 to 399 rooms – Medium
• 400 to 700 rooms – Large
• More than 700 rooms – Mega

Hotel Types by Location

Airport Hotels : They are located near airport. The guests in transit use them for short stay.

City Center : Located in the heart of the city near commercial area.

Hotel Types by Location

Floatels: They are on the cruise ships, large lakes, or rivers.

Boatels: a waterside hotel equipped with docks to accommodate persons traveling by boat; a boat or ship with sleeping accommodations that is used as a hotel.

Hotel Types by Location

Motel: They are small hotels usually located on highways. is a hotel designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles.

Suburb Hotels: They are located near urban area. Budget guests use them.

Hotel Types by Location

Resort hotel: They are on the beaches, mountains, islands, or on the river banks.

Rotels: They are hotels on wheels such as Deccan Odyssey train.

Hotel Types by Target Market

Conference (convention) centers and commercial hotels are designed for business clientele. They feature multipurpose rooms that can accommodate seminars and business programs.

Business Hotels: They primarily cater for the guests who are on business travel.

Hotel Types by Target Market

Boutique hotel is a term popularized in North America and the United Kingdom to describe luxurious accommodation. Typically boutique hotels are furnished in a stylish manner, often ranging from 3 to 50 guest rooms.

Casino Hotels: They target the guests interested in gambling. Their functions of housekeeping is primary but food and beverage functions are just supportive.

Hotel Types by Target Market

A bed and breakfast (or B&B) is a small lodging establishment that offers overnight accommodation and breakfast, but usually does not offer other meals. Typically, bed and breakfasts are private homes with fewer than 10 bedrooms available for commercial use.

Hostels are hotels for low-income travelers. Students and long-term travelers often stay in hostels, where beds are shared and prices are cheap.

Unusual hotels

Treehouse hotels. Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, Brazil, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon; and Bayram’s Tree Houses in Olympos, Turkey.

Cave hotels. The Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (named after the author) in Guadix, Spain, as well as several hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey, are built into natural cave formations, some with rooms underground.

Capsule hotels are a type of economical hotel that are found in Japan, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers .

Ice and snow hotel. The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, and the Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, Canada, melt every spring and are rebuilt each winter; the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the Kemi snow castle; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near Ylläs, Finland.

Underwater hotels (such as Utter Inn in Lake Mälaren, Sweden)