HOTEL

 History of Hotel
 Hotel Ratings
 Types of Hotel
 Unique and Specialty Hotels
HOTEL is an establishment that provides lodging
paid on a short-term basis. Facilities provided may
range from a basic bed and storage for clothing, to
luxury features like en-suite bathrooms. Larger
hotels may provide additional guest facilities such
as a swimming pool, business center, childcare,
conference facilities and social function services.

Hotel rooms are usually numbered or named in

some smaller hotels to allow guests to identify
their room.
HISTORY
 The word hotel is derived from the French
hôtel (coming from the same origin as hospital),
which referred to a French version of a building
seeing frequent visitors, and providing care, rather
than a place offering accommodation. In
contemporary French usage, hôtel now has the same
meaning as the English term, and hôtel particulier is
used for the old meaning, as well as "hôtel" in some
place names such as Hôtel-Dieu (in Paris), which has
been a hospital since the Middle Ages.
 Facilities offering hospitality to
travellers have been a feature of the earliest
civilizations. In Greco-Roman culture
hospitals for recuperation and rest were built
at thermal baths. During the Middle Ages
various religious orders at monasteries and
abbeys would offer accommodation for
travellers on the road.
The precursor to the modern hotel
was the inn of medieval Europe, possibly
dating back to the rule of Ancient Rome.
These would provide for the needs of
travelers, including food and lodging, stabling
and fodder for the traveler's horse(s) and fresh
horses for the mail coach. Famous London
examples of inns include the George and the
Tabard.
A typical layout of an inn had an inner
court with bedrooms on the two sides,
with the kitchen and parlour at the front
and the stables at the back.[1]
For a period of about 200 years from the
mid-17th century, coaching inns served as
a place for lodging for coach travelers (in
other words, a roadhouse). Coaching inns
stabled teams of horses for stagecoaches
and mail coaches and replaced tired
teams with fresh teams. Traditionally they
were seven miles apart but this depended
very much on the terrain.
 Some English towns had as many as ten such
inns and rivalry between them was intense,
not only for the income from the stagecoach
operators but for the revenue for food and
drink supplied to the wealthy passengers. By
the end of the century, coaching inns were
being run more professionally, with a regular
timetable being followed and fixed menus for
food.
.
 Hotel Ratings 
are often used to classify hotels according to their
quality. The development of the concept of hotel rating
and its associated definitions display strong parallels.
 Today the terms 'grading', 'rating', and 'classification' are
used to generally refer to the same concept, that is to
categorize hotels, mostly using stars as a symbol.
There are a wide variety of rating schemes used by
different organizations around the world. Many have a
system involving stars, with a greater number of stars
indicating greater luxury. 
Hotel Star Guest Classification Hotel Criteria
Tourist -100% of the rooms with shower or bath tub
-Daily room cleaning
-100% of the rooms with colour-TV together with
remote control
-Table and chair
-Soap or body wash
-Reception service
-Publicly available telephone for guests
-Extended breakfast
-Beverage offer in the hotel
-Deposit possibility

Standard In addition to the single star hotels:

-Breakfast buffet
-Reading light next to the bed
-Bath essence or shower gel
-Bath towels
-Linen shelves
-Offer of sanitary products (e.g. toothbrush, toothpaste,
shaving kit)
-Credit Cards
Hotel Star Guest Classification Hotel Criteria

Comfort In addition to the standard star (***) hotels:

-Reception opened 14 hours, accessible by phone 24 hours
from inside and outside,
-Three piece suite at the reception, luggage service
-Beverage offer in the room
-Telephone in the room
-Internet access in the room or in the public area
-Heating facility in the bathroom, hair-dryer, cleansing
tissue
-Dressing mirror, place to put the luggage/suitcase
-Sewing kit, shoe polish utensils, laundry and ironing
service
-Additional pillow and additional blanket on demand
-Systematic complaint management system
Hotel Star Guest Classification Hotel Criteria
First Class -In addition to the comfort star (****) hotels:
Reception opened 18 hours, accessible by phone 24
hours from inside and outside
-Lobby with seats and beverage service
-Breakfast buffet or breakfast menu card via room
service
-Minibar or 24 hours beverages via room service
-Upholstered chair/couch with side table
-Bath robe and slippers on demand
-Cosmetic products (e.g. shower cap, nail file, cotton
swabs), vanity mirror, tray of a large scale in the
bathroom
-Internet access and internet terminal
-"À la carte"-restaurant
Hotel Star Guest Hotel Criteria
Classification
Luxury In addition to the first class (*****) hotels:
-Reception opened 24 hours, multilingual staff
-Doorman-service or valet parking
-Concierge, page boy
-Spacious reception hall with several seats and beverage
service
-Personalized greeting for each guest with fresh flowers
or a present in the room
-Minibar and food and beverage offer via room service
during 24 hours
-Personal care products in flacons
-Internet-PC in the room
-Safe in the room
-Ironing service (return within 1 hour), shoe polish
service
-Turndown service in the evening
Seven Stars
Some hotels have been advertised as
seven star hotels. The Burj Al Arab
 hotel in Dubai was opened in 1998
with a servant for every room - this has
been the first hotel being widely
described as a "seven-star" property, but
the hotel says the label originates from
an unnamed British journalist on a press
trip and that they neither encourage its
use nor do they use it in their
advertising. Similarly the 
Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi
(open since 2005) is sometimes
described as seven star as well, but the
hotel uses only a five star rating
TYPES OF
HOTEL
Upscale luxury
An upscale full service hotel
facility that offers luxury amenities,
full service accommodations, on-site
full service restaurant(s), and the
highest level of personalized and
professional service. Luxury hotels
are normally classified with at least
a Four Diamond or Five Diamond
status or a Four or Five Star rating
depending on the country and local
classification standards.
 Full service hotels
often contain upscale full-
service facilities with a large
volume of full service
accommodations, on-site full
service restaurant(s), and a
variety of on-site amenities
such as swimming pools, a
health club, children's
activities, ballrooms, on-site
conference facilities, and
other amenities.
Boutique hotels are smaller
independent non-branded
hotels that often contain
upscale facilities of varying
size in unique or intimate
settings with full service
accommodations. Some
historic inns and boutique
hotels may be classified as
luxury hotels.
Small to medium-sized hotel
establishments that offer a
limited amount of on-site
amenities that only cater and
market to a specific
demographic of travelers, such
as the single business traveler.
Most focused or select service
hotels may still offer full service
accommodations but may lack
leisure amenities such as an on-
site restaurant or a swimming
pool
Extended stay
 
Extended stay hotels are small to
medium-sized hotels that offer longer
term full service accommodations
compared to a traditional hotel.
Extended stay hotels may offer non-
traditional pricing methods such as a
weekly rate that cater towards
travelers in need of short-term
accommodations for an extended
period of time. Similar to limited and
select service hotels, on-site amenities
are normally limited and most
extended stay hotels lack on an on-site
restaurant.
Timeshare and Destination clubs are a
form of property ownership also referred
to as a vacation ownership involving the
purchase and ownership of an individual
unit of accommodation for seasonal usage
during a specified period of time.
Timeshare resorts often offer amenities
similar that of a Full service hotel with
on-site restaurant(s), swimming pools,
recreation grounds, and other leisure-
oriented amenities. Destination clubs on
the other hand may offer more exclusive
private accommodations such as private
houses in a neighborhood-style setting.
Motel
 A motel is a small-sized
low-rise lodging
establishment similar to that
of a limited service hotel, but
with direct access to
individual rooms from the
car park. Common during the
1950s and 1960s, motels
were often located adjacent
to a major road, where they
were built on inexpensive
land at the edge of towns or
along stretches of highways .
 UNIQUE
AND
SPECIALTY HOTEL
Resort hotels
 Some hotels are built
specifically as a destination in
itself to create a captive trade,
example at casinos and holiday
resorts. Though of course hotels
have always been built in
popular destinations, the
defining characteristic of a
resort hotel is that it exists
purely to serve another
attraction, the two having the
same owners.
Bunker hotels
 
The Null Stern Hotel in
Teufen, Appenzellerland,
Switzerland and the
Concrete Mushrooms in
Albania[10] are former
nuclear bunkers
transformed into hotels.
 Cave Hotels
  The Cuevas Pedro
Antonio de Alarcón (named
after the author) in Guadix,
Spain, as well as several
hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey,
are notable for being built into
natural cave formations, some
with rooms underground. The
Desert Cave Hotel in Coober
Pedy, South Australia is built
into the remains of an opal
mine.
 Cliff Hotels
On top of the cliff, the Riosol Hotel
in Mogán Located on the coast but
high above sea level, these hotels
offer unobstructed panoramic
views and a great sense of privacy
without the feeling of total
isolation. Some examples from
around the globe are the Riosol
Hotel in Gran Canaria, Caruso
Belvedere Hotel in Amalfi Coast
(Italy), Aman Resorts Amankila in
Bali, Birkenhead House in
Hermanus (South Africa), The
Caves in Jamaica and Caesar
Augustus in Capri.[11]
Capsule Hotels
Interior of a capsule
hotel in Osaka, Japan
 
Capsule hotels are
a type of economical
hotel first introduced in
Japan, where people
sleep in stacks of
rectangular containers.
Ice, Snow and Igloo Hotels
 
Igloo Village in
Kakslauttanen,the Ice Hotel in
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden is the first ice
hotel in the world, built in 1990,
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.
Garden hotels
Railway hotels
Further information:
Category:Railway hotels
 Frequently, expanding railway
companies built grand hotels at
their termini, such as the Midland
Hotel, Manchester next to the
former Manchester Central Station,
and in London the ones above St
Pancras railway station and
Charing Cross railway station.
London also has the Chiltern Court
Hotel above Baker Street tube
station; there are also Canada's
grand railway hotels. They are or
were mostly, but not exclusively,
used by those traveling by rail.
Garden Hotels
famous for their
gardens before they
became hotels, include
Gravetye Manor, the
home of garden designer
William Robinson, and
Cliveden, designed by
Charles Barry with a rose
garden by Geoffrey
Jellicoe.
Straw Bale Hotels
 
The Maya Guesthouse in Nax
Mont-Noble in the Swiss
Alps, is the first hotel in
Europe built entirely with
straw bales. Due to the
insulation values of the walls
it needs no conventional
heating or air conditioning
system, although the Maya
Guesthouse is built at an
altitude of 1,300 meters in the
Alps.
Treehouse hotels
 
Some hotels are built with living
trees as structural elements, for
example the Treehotel near Piteå,
Sweden, 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.
Underwater hotels
 
Some hotels have
accommodation underwater,
such as Utter Inn in Lake
Mälaren, Sweden. Hydropolis,
project in Dubai, would have
had suites on the bottom of the
Persian Gulf, and Jules'
Undersea Lodge in Key Largo,
Florida requires scuba diving to
access its rooms.
 First World Hotel is a three-
star hotel with a total of 6,118-
rooms, making it the largest hotel
in the world by number of rooms.
It consists of Tower 1 and Tower 2,
with 1,669 standard rooms,
3,307 deluxe rooms, 69 deluxe
triple rooms, 493 superior deluxe
rooms and 136 world club rooms.
The hotel is managed by First
World Hotel and Resorts Sendirian
Berhad, one of the two major
companies operating at Resorts
World Genting.
Oldest hotel
Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan
is a hot spring hotel in
Hayakawa, Yamanashi
Prefecture, Japan. Founded
in 705, it is the oldest hotel
and oldest company still in
operation according to the
Guinness World Records.
The hotel has had 52
operators since its founding.
 The Highest-The Ritz-
Carlton, Hong Kong is a Ritz-Carlton
five-star hotel in the
International Commerce Centre,
West Kowloon, Hong Kong. It occupies
the 102nd to 118th floors of the
Sun Hung Kai Properties-owned
International Commerce Centre and offers
312 rooms, making it the world's highest
hotel.The hotel features both a bar and a
pool located on the 118th floor, which are
the highest bar and swimming pool in the
world respectively.
 THE END!
Prepared for:
Ms. Gene Kana-an

Prepared by:
Ms. Rojie Mae Fidelson