A hotel (of French , old French hostel from late latin hospitale for "‚guest rooms `) was in French cities, particularly in Paris, a noble house. The designation was used also for public buildings and found its way into the today's linguistic usage, where it designates a lodging now in many languages.

General information

A hotel is an accommodating and a regaling enterprise (main an accommodation). It concerns here a routistic enterprise, which serves for it guests (to a large extent business travelers and tourists) against payment for one or more days and nights to accommodate and board. The hotel trade is a component of the guest trade.

It has for its guests in the minimum a complete mechanism for:

• the receipt (Rezeption)
• accommodating
• the stay
• the food supply

Larger hotels mostly have over a receipt and a lounge (lobby), a restaurant, a bar and, depending upon category, a small swimming pool, garages and other mechanisms. Hotels have a constantly occupied Empfangstresen contrary to pensions a Rezeption. Here take place usually the receipt (check in) and the departure formalities (check Out). Rezeptionen have a prescription ion bell, with which one can call for personnel if necessary. There are hotels in the most diverse price and comfort classes. They are categorized internationally after hotel stars - in star hotels are very simply equipped, five-star hotels extremely whereby the standards of valuation from country can be different to country. Officially there are no hotels, which have more than five stars. The largest hotel in Germany is the Estrel in Berlin with 1.125 rooms. That as the world described hotel is often the Burj aluminium Arab in Dubai, as the largest hotel of the world applies however emirate the Palace hotel in the emiratischen capital Abu Dhabi.

In most large cities, and/or large vacation regions there is hotels of the 6 - stars category. The city with most of it is Dubai at Persian Gulf, with at least 12. The probably most well-known of it is the Burj aluminium Arab, the hotel of the extra class. Most hotels in Dubai were built in the typically Arab style.

The hotel line

The line of a hotel is a various field of application, particularly in the medium-size, does not chain-bind hotel trade must a Hoteldirektor various talents bring along. From marketing to the bulk buying and the economical Controlling he must control everything, in order to lead a profitable enterprise. A second leadership level contributing to the discharge is rarely comprehensively available, all decisions runs over the table of the Hoteldirektors. Classical way comes a large part of the high-level personnel from the occupation of cook. Hotel management schools offer meanwhile structure courses of studies for the hotel landlord. Practical technical literature, which is addressed to the hotel trade exclusively, is however RSR. See for this the bibliography.

Literature recommendation:

• Hotel line in practice

The operational organization

A hotel offers in principle two main achievements, which result from the definition.

• Accommodating achievements (franz. Logement, English Lodging/Accomodation)
• Food supply achievements (Food & Beverage)

The accommodating achievements are among other things:

• Accommodating in the actual sense
• Overnight accomodations
• Residence possibilities
• Receipt, check in, check Out, information

The central food supply achievement is the breakfast. Depending upon enterprise further food supply achievements can be offered. These are differentiated with respect to kitchen or cellar achievements.

• Kitchen achievement:
  • Meal
  • Half or board
  • la carte
  • Snacks
  • Desserts, cake
  • Coffee, dte and further
  • warm beverages

• Cellar achievement:
  • Wines
  • Beers
  • Liquor
  • Alcoholic beverages

Apart from these two main achievements however often numerous further additional service is offered: Telephone/fax, Internet connection, guest laundry, kiosk article, Wellnessangebote, letting of restaurants, tobacco goods, garage use, guest transfer and transportation, luggage transportation, animation programs, conference rooms, ticket switching, trips, sun screens and beach chairs, beach, Shopping & fashion shops, Coiffeur, sport equipment rental business, Business center, parking lots, boat landing place, Pay TV, pool, mini bar, Fitness, bathrobes, shuttle service, TV, telephone, bathing article, radio, Safe/safe deposit, video, Room service, waking service, shoe finery automat, ski area etc.

It becomes between 4 achievement places, - ranges differentiated:

• Logement Frontoffice, floor, housekeeping, Lingerie)
• Food supply (production/kitchen, sales/service, seams/housekeeping [Buffet, Office & passport], sales offices/restaurant, hall, bar, Pub, Dancing, terrace, floor service)
• Logistics (purchasing office, merchandise control, internal transportation, storage Economat, beverage cellar, refrigerating chambers)
• Administration (management, bookkeeping/account system, Controlling, secretariat, marketing/Sales, Backoffice, reservation, human Resources, workshop/maintenance, special administration)

Hotel typology

In the hotel trade there are very different kinds of hotels, which cover different guest needs. The different modes of operation differ after the following criteria from each other.

Distinction after:

• Food supply possibilities
  • Full hotel: Accommodating and food supply
  • Board: Overnight accomodation, breakfast, noon and dinner
  • Half-board: Overnight accomodation, breakfast, noon or dinner
  • Hotel Garni: Overnight accomodation only with breakfast. A Garni does not offer pension. However a public restaurant can be attached (the emergence of the name additive "garni "is not completely clear, it comes from the French garnir, "‚verzieren `, "‚decorates `, which developed from Germanic warning January. The same origin have also "to warn "and "garrison ").

• Residence purpose
  • Health hotel, Wellness, Wellbeing, Wellfeeling
  • Bath hotel
  • Holiday hotel
  • Sports hotel
  • Business hotel
  • Congress or seminar hotel/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Congress and Events)
  • see Resort

• Connection with special means of transport
  • Post office hotel: At well-known post office autodistances, where in former times still traditional Postkutschen on the way were.
  • Station hotel: (e.g. intertown center hotels in Germany)
  • Airport hotel
  • Motel: Lies directly or in direct proximity of important road connections and motorways. Per guest room at least a parking lot and a 24h check in. Motels are selected owing to the central situation increased as execution place of seminars, conferences and conferences. The first motels originated in at the beginning 20. Century in the USA.
  • Solar motel: Particularly for drivers of solarelectricalmobile

• Location
  • City hotel
  • Mountain hotel
  • Sea-hotel
  • Beach hotel

• Travel form
  • Hotel for individually travelers of guests
  • Group traveler, bus journey hotel

• Duration of stopover
  • Holiday hotel, family hotel
  • Passantenhotel
  • Hour hotel
  • Daily room

• Size of company
  • Small firms: 20 - 70 beds (KMU)
  • Medium sized enterprises: 71 - 150 beds (KMU)
    • Large-scale enterprises: more than 151 beds

• Actual working time
  • Complete yearly enterprises
  • Seasonal entreprises
    • A on: Summer or winter
    • Two-seasonal entreprise: Summer and winter (low season closed)

• Form of business organization
  • Owner enterprises
  • Renting enterprises
  • Corporations, GmbH
  • Cooperatives
  • Franchising, management contracts

• Beyond that special forms of hotels exist:
  • A cap hotel is a relatively new, particularly place saving hotel form in Japan. Here one does without guest rooms, but accommodates the guests in one above the other stacked caps, which can be in each case only used lying. Baths or toilets are present as communal facility. In most cap hotels there are beyond that common rooms to the stay, similarly a television room. Nevertheless the caps are usually also in each case equipped with a television in eye level individually, in order to ensure a minimum of accommodating comfort. Cap hotels are used often by business travelers or commuters and are usually - similarly a motel - at traffic junctions.
  • Hour hotel/Love hotel
  • Swimming hotels, e.g. cruise ships.

• • Woman hotels are operated exclusively by women. They are exclusively open for women or also for male guests. Frequently they by alone travelers and vacationers with small children are taken up.

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