Hotels today are quite different from those of the past. People who stay in them are generally traveling for business, or they are touring or on vacation. So hotels are designed mainly to meet the needs of one of those two groups of people. Hotels designed for business people are known as commercial or transient hotels. Hotels for people on vacation are called vacation or resort hotels.
Transient hotels are usually located in the business section of town, while resort hotels may be at the seashore, on a mountain lake, or in the desert.
In addition to these two main types, there is a third type of hotel, called a residential hotel. This is designed to meet the needs of people who want to live in a hotel. Inns and hotels are located in nearly very population center in the world. In the United States alone there are about thirty thousand. Some hotels have as few as ten rooms, and others have several hundred. Among the largest hotels in the world today are the Conrad Hilton in Chicage, Illinois, and the Russia in Moscow, each with about three thousand rooms. In every hotel, travelers find small single rooms for the use of one person; larger double rooms for the use of two people and arrangement of two or more rooms, called suites, which can be used by a group of persons traveling together.
Hotels range from the very luxurious, which charge high rates, to the small and inexpensive that fall within the price range of large number of travelers. The price for a suite of rooms in a luxury hotel may be $50 a day and up, while a double room in a moderate-price hotel may cost $8 or $10 a day and up.
Transient hotels are usually located in the business section of town, while resort hotels may be at the seashore, on a mountain lake, or in the desert.
In addition to these two main types, there is a third type of hotel, called a residential hotel. This is designed to meet the needs of people who want to live in a hotel. Inns and hotels are located in nearly very population center in the world. In the United States alone there are about thirty thousand. Some hotels have as few as ten rooms, and others have several hundred. Among the largest hotels in the world today are the Conrad Hilton in Chicage, Illinois, and the Russia in Moscow, each with about three thousand rooms. In every hotel, travelers find small single rooms for the use of one person; larger double rooms for the use of two people and arrangement of two or more rooms, called suites, which can be used by a group of persons traveling together.
Hotels range from the very luxurious, which charge high rates, to the small and inexpensive that fall within the price range of large number of travelers. The price for a suite of rooms in a luxury hotel may be $50 a day and up, while a double room in a moderate-price hotel may cost $8 or $10 a day and up.