CLASSIFICATIONS OF HOTEL
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The hotel industry is so vast that many hotels do not fit into single well defined category.
Industry can be divided in various ways.
Budget hotels or Cheap Hotels (include 1 and 2 star hotels)
Mid-Range hotels or Tourist Hotels (include 3 star hotels)
Luxury hotels or Boutique Hotels (include 4 and above star hotels)
Based on location:
City Centre: Generally located in the heart of city within a short distance from business center, shopping arcade. Resort hotels: They are also termed as health resort or beach hill resort and so depending on their position and location. They cater a person who wants to relax, enjoy themselves at hill station. Most resort work to full capacity during peak season.
Floating hotels: It is located on river, sea or big lakes.
Boatels: A house boat hotels is referred as boatels, which offers luxurious accommodation to travelers.
Airport Hotels: A hotel located near a public airport. Although airport hotels vary widely in size and service levels, they are generally full-service and are more likely than other hotels to have in-room movies, computerized property management systems, and call accounting systems.
Based on the Level of Service
Classified into economy and luxury on the basis of the level of service they offer.
Economy/ Budget hotels: These meet the basic need of the guest by providing comfortable and clean room for a comfortable stay.
Based on Theme - Theme hotel may be classified into Heritage hotels, Ecotels, Boutique hotels and Spas.
- Heritage hotel: In this hotel a guest is graciously welcomed, offered room that have their own history, serve traditional cuisine and are entertained by folk artist. These hotels put their best efforts to give the glimpse of their region
- Ecotels : these are environment friendly hotels these hotels use eco friendly items in the room. Example: Orchid Mumbai is Asia first and most popular five star ecotel.
- Boutique hotels: This hotel provides exceptional accommodation, furniture in a themed and stylish manner and caters to corporate travelers. Example: In India the park Bangalore is a boutique hotel.
- Spas: is a resort which provide therapeutic bath and massage along with other features of luxury hotels in India Ananda spa in Himalaya are the most popular Spa.
- Resort hotels: These leisure hotels are mainly for vacationers who want to relax and enjoy with their family. The occupancy varies as per season. The atmosphere is more relaxed. These are spread out in vast areas so many resorts have solar powered carts for the transport of guest.
- Suite hotels: These hotel offer rooms that may include compact kitchenette. They cater to people who are relocating act as like lawyers, executives who are away from home for a long business stay.
- Casino hotels: Hotel with predominantly gambling facilities comes under this category, they have guest room and food and operation too. These hotels tend to cater leisure and vacation travelers. Gambling activities at some casino hotels operate 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
- Cruise Ships - Passenger ships designed for vacationers. Today's cruise ships feature a variety of activities and Entertainment and can be thought of as floating resort hotels.
Caravan: It’s quite popular outside India but because of pandemic it’s becoming quite popular in India too.
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