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- Business Hotels:
- These hotels are the largest group of hotel types and cater primarily
to business travellers and usually located in downtown or business
districts . Although Business hotels primarily serves business
travellers , many tour groups, individual tourists and small conference
groups find these hotels attractive. Guest amenities at business hotels
may include complimentary newspapers, morning coffee, free local
telephone calls , Break fast etc. In addition to this facilities like
access to business centre , personal computer , Wi-Fi and fax machines
also provided to the guest.
- Airport Hotels:
- These type of hotels typically target business clientele, airline
passengers with overnight travel layovers or cancelled flights and
airline personnel. Some hotels might give free transport between hotel
and airport . Some hotels also provide meeting facilities to attract
guests who travel to a meeting by air and wish to minimize ground
travel. Another attraction of these hotels is instead of charging the
guest on a daily basis guest can also pay for their room on a hourly
basis.
- Suite Hotels:
- These kind of hotels are the latest trend and the fastest growing
segments in the hotel industry . Main attraction of these hotels is
guestrooms with a living room and a separate bedroom. In exchange for
more complete living room suite hotels generally have fewer and more
limited public areas and guest services than other hotels . This also
helps keep suite hotel's guestroom prices competitive in the market
.Professionals such as accountants, lawyers, business men and executives
find suite hotels particularly attractive as they can work and also
entertain in an area besides the bedroom.
- Extended Stay Hotels:
- Extended stay hotels is somewhat similar to the suite hotels , but
usually offers kitchen amenities in the room . These kind of hotels are
for travellers who want to stay more than a week and does not want to
depend on the service of the hotel . Extended service hotels usually
does not provide any F & B service or Laundry service etc. These
kind of hotels are considered by guests as "Home away from home "
- Apartment Hotels:
- Apartment / Residential hotels provide long-term or permanent
accommodation for Guest. Usually guest makes a lease agreement with the
hotel for minimum of one month up to a year. These lease agreements are
renewed on a yearly basis. Guest rooms generally include living room ,
bedroom, kitchen , private balcony , washing machines , kitchen utensils
etc. Residential hotel also provided Housekeeping , laundry , telephone
and in some hotels a restaurant and lounge etc will be present on the
premises.
- Resort Hotels:
- Resort hotels are usually located in the mountains, on an island , or
in some other exotic locations away from city's . These hotels have
recreational facilities , scenery , golf , tennis , sailing , skiing and
swimming . Resort hotels provide enjoyable and memorable guest
experiences that encourage guest to repeat to the resort.
- Bed and Breakfast Hotels :-
These are houses with rooms converted into overnight facilities , this
can size up to 20 to 30 guest rooms . They are also known as 'Home
Stay's'. The owner of the B&B usually stay on the premises and is
responsible for serving breakfast to guest . Due to the limited services
offered at these hotels the price for room is very less than any full
service hotel.
- Timeshare and condominium Hotels:
- Another new type or segment of the hospitality industry is the
timeshare hotels. These are sometimes referred to as "
Vacation-interval" hotels . Timeshare hotels are where the guests who
purchase the ownership of accommodations for a specific period .These
owners may also have the unit rented out by the management company that
operates the hotel . Condominium are similar to timeshare but the
difference between the two lies in the type of ownership. Units in
condominium hotels only have one owner instead of multiple owners , each
for a limited amount of time each year. In a condominium hotel, an
owner informs the management company if when he/ she wants to occupy the
unit.
- Casino Hotels :-
Hotels with gambling facilities may be categorized as a distinct group
called Casino Hotels .Although the food and beverage operations in
casino is luxurious their functions is secondary to and supportive of
casino operations. Casino hotels attract guest by promoting the gambling
and other entertainments.
- Conference Centres:
- These type of hotels focus on meeting and conferences and overnight
accommodation for meeting attendees. They also provide High quality
audiovisual equipments, business services , flexible seating
arrangements , flipchart etc. These hotels mostly located outside the
metropolitan areas and have facilities like golf , swimming pools ,
tennis courts , fitness centres , spas etc.
- Convention Centres:
- Convention hotels are larger in size compared to conference centres
and likely to have more than 1500 rooms . These hotels are huge and have
sufficient number of guest rooms to house all the attendees of most
conventions, even the size of the meeting rooms , ball rooms , exhibit
rooms are quite huge .They usually cater to convention market for state ,
regional , national, and international associations .