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Accommodation: Shelter, food, drink, and other services for travelers or transients. Because it provides these things, the hotel business is often referred to as the accommodation industry.
Inn: An establishment offering shelter and food for travelers. The term was customary in the days of travel by horse; it has been revived because it conveys an idea of old-fashioned hospitality.
Tavern: in modern usage, a place that serves alcoholic drinks. Formerly, it was an alternative term for an inn.
Motel: A shortened form for motor hotel. A motel provides accommodations for the traveler and a parking space for his or her automobile. Moth motel and motor hotel are in common use.
Tourist Cabin/ Tourist Court: Terms that were used in the early days of the automobile for places where people traveling by car found accommodations. In general, tourist cabins and courts have evolved into the motels of today.
Resort: A place or area to which people travel for recreational purposes. Hotels are, of course, important features of resort areas.
Convention: A meeting of a business or professional group for the purpose of exchanging information, electing officers, and discussing and frequently voting on proposals for rule changes in the organization. Conventions have become a big business, and many hotels provide special facilities and services to attract them.
Banquet: A large formal meal, given for a specific purpose, usually including speeches or some kind of ceremony. Many hotels have banquet rooms to accommodate functions of this kind.
Deluxe: Of the highest quality. Hotels rated as deluxe offer the greatest possible convenience, comfort, and service to their guests. Such hotels are often called luxury hotels and are generally the most expensive.
Labor-intensive: Requiring a large number of people for the services that are provided by a business or industry. The accommodations industry is labor-intensive.
Answer the following questions:
1. Why is the hotel business often called the accommodations industry?
2. What is an inn? Why has the term been revived?
3. What does tavern mean in modern usage? How was it used formerly?
4. What is a motel? What other term is in common use for the same kind of establishment?
5. What are tourist cabins and tourist courts? In general, what have they become?
6. What is a resort? Give some examples.
7. What is a convention? Why do many hotels provide special facilities and services for them?
8. What is a banquet? How do hotels accommodate functions of this kind?
9. Why is the accommodations industry considered labor-intensive?
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A hotel is a temporary home for people who are traveling. In a hotel the traveler can rest and has access to food and drink, either on the premises or nearby. The hotel may also offer facilities for recreation, such as a swimming pool, a golf course, or a beach. In many cases, the hotel also provides free space for the traveler’s means of transportation. All of these services are designed to accommodate the traveler, so the hotel business is often referred to as the accommodations industry.
Travel and hotels have always been closely related.
In Europe and America, inns and taverns were spaced along the roads as the distance a horse could travel in a day. The inns were primitive by modern standards. The traveler usually had to share his bed with at least one other person, and as many as four other persons in some remote areas. The old-fashioned inns, however, did provide food and shelter for both men and horses and therefore became a symbol for hospitality. Indeed, the word inn has been used recently by many modern hotels and motels.
The word motel was created by combining motor and hotel. The term motor hotel is also used frequently to designate the same kind of accommodation facility. When automobiles were first used, flimsy and inexpensive tourist cabins were built beside the highways. Then as people demanded greater comfort, the cabins were replaced by tourist courts and then by the modern motel, offering services comparable to the more traditional hotels. Motels or motor hotels providing parking facilities for cars were also constructed in many large cities, where they now compete with the older commercial hotels.
The airplane extended the distances that people could travel in a short period. For the accommodations industry, the most direct result of the increase in tourism that was attributable to the airplane was a boom in the construction of resort hotels.
A resort is a place to which people travel for recreation. It may offer mountain scenery, the combination of sun and sea, or features that are entirely man-made, like Disneyland in California.
All hotels do not serve the same clientele, that is, the same kind of guests. In fact, it is possible to place hotels in four broad categories. The first is the commercial hotel, which provided services essentially for transients, many of them traveling on business. Many city hotels and diversely located motels fall into this group. The second category is resort hotels. Located in vacation areas, they often provide recreational facilities of their own as well. A third type of hotel aims its services largely at the convention trade. Conventions are meetings, usually held yearly, of various business or professional groups. Not so long ago, most conventions were held in large urban centers such as New York or Washington D.C., but the airplane has made it possible for resort hotels to attract this kind of business also. The fourth category is resident hotels. People who do not wish to keep house themselves can rent accommodations on a seasonal basis or even permanently in many hotels.
No firm distinction exists between the different kinds of hotels. In large cities that are also tourist centers, such as New York, Paris, London, Rome and Tokyo, one hotel may offer all types of service. And even a small motel may have banquets rooms and meeting rooms. Many resort hotels nowadays can have complete convention facilities.
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