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Type of Hotels

Hotels can be classified in many categories as follows:

Commercial or Transient Hotel

Commercial hotels usually situate in the Down Town with the business concourse. Businessmen are content to accommodate in this type of hotels, because it is convenient in the business contact, with no need for long travels, passing all the traffic jam. It is convenient because this type of hotels are fully and conveniently accommodated, such as the food servicing, the swimming pool, the exercise room, the tennis lawn, karaoke room, dancing room, and the conference room. It is also near various places, which businessmen may easily make business contacts. The communication is convenient, with all means of selectable transportation for servicing. In this type of hotels, clients can enter and leave all the time, while they would not rest in hotels for a long time.

Resort Hotel

This is a resting hotel for tourists. These hotels would situate in the tour sources or in the resting sources such as on the seashores, the mountains, on the riverside, near the golf course, etc. Therefore, the conservation of natural beauty is a significant matter, because guests require contacting the beautiful nature, and at the same time, they also need to all the conveniences and facilities. Therefore, this type of hotel must be fully prepared for the conveniences and facilities, because the guests only wish to rest. In the hotel, there should be the golf course, riding course, and fitness. There should be all the exercises and activities for guests, such as the boat services, horses for riding, wind surf, and ski lawn. All these would enable the success for resort hotels.

Residential Hotel

Residential Hotel refers to the resident and not for commercial. Therefore, the residential hotel is the lodging, with a tenant contract and conditions between guests and the proprietor, where there would be an accommodation for a short time, or a long time. This length of time may take a month long, or a year long. However, there might be a condition that in the case of long term tenant, should the guest be absent for a long time, such as going to upcountry for a long time, the hotel has a right to let the room on a short basis, such as the Voldoft Astroia in New York, who are the Residential Hotel. They have temporary guests as well as permanent guests. In this case, the hotel conglomerate of Astroria has many branches, in Europe and in America.

Motel

Motel is the combination of the words ‘Motel’ to ‘Hotel’. This word had been initiated in the United States before 1930. After the World War II, when the economy started to revitalize, people sold more motor cars, and went on the travel. Travelers experienced all inconveniences in the lodging. This is usually in town, where the traffic was congested and jammed, with no parking space. In this case, the motel must find all the facilitation for tourists, with a parking service right next to the bedroom, or sometimes, under the bedroom. Usually, motels do not have room services, because guests usually come to rest for only one night, before commencing on the travel in the next morning. Motels usually situate on the highways, and the accommodation service is executed for 24 hours.

Motor Hotel

The idea in building up Motor Hotels was initiated by Cammon Wilson, an American designer and fixed asset developer, who set his family on a tour. He encountered a great accommodation difficulty. After his tour, he contrived a new format for the hotel by collecting all conveniences with the travelers who owned cars. The format of the Motor Hotel is the medium hotel with 30 rooms to 300 rooms, accommodated with parking spaces. The parking is free to compete with hotels that collect parking spaces. Moreover, there may be other services, such as the coffee shop, cocktail lounge, conference room, and swimming pool.

In 1953, the Holiday Inn hotel in the United States commenced its business with 100 rooms, and presently owned over 1624 branches with 317,506,rooms in the towns, and in the vicinity. The format of the Holiday Inn is the Motor Hotel, which was so successful that it becomes a franchise with high popularity.

Budget Hotel

The Budget Hotel or the Economy Hotel is to serve travelers who like the economy, cleanliness and modernity. This is usually a small size hotel, with limited rooms. An example of this type of hotel is the Days Inn, which spread all over the United States. Sometimes, the Days Inn may be in the same place with a service station, while giving different services. This is the same as the Ibis in Europe and Japan. Quite a number of travelers prefer the economy hotels, especially in countries with high cost of living, where some groups of tourists are unable to accommodate in hotels with high services.

Condominium Apartment, Flat

The condominium is a suit condominium that is similar to an apartment or flat. The difference is that the owner of a condominium or the particular suit has an absolute tenure right, through the affirmative document under the agreed rules and regulations. Condominiums were initiated in Thailand from the sky rising cost of the land and the traffic congestion.

Presently, condominiums have a character of temporary rent, rather than a permanent residence. This is because the Thai people are not used to stay in square and limited rooms for a long time. However, when the problem of land and traffic increased, there would be a more permanent residing in condominiums; while the apartments or flats are only the lodging and rooms for rent. Where, usually in apartments and flats, there is neither facilities nor furniture, and tenants must provide these for themselves. This is the type of long renting for months or for years.

Travellers are able to find accommodations from condominiums while travelling, and these condominiums are called the Condotel. (The condotel is the combination of the words ‘condominium’ and ‘hotel’.) Here, they would be able to save money because many people may stay in this place and they are also able to prepare their own food.

GUEST ROOMS SELLING FORMAT, AND THE FOOD SELLING FORMAT

Guest Rooms Selling Operation: The hotel proprietor or the investor must stipulate a precise sales policy of the hotel. The applied sales format for guest rooms are generally classified into four formats:

European Plan

The European plan or EP is the European style. In this type of business management, the room rate would be differentiated. While other expenses, such as the food, and drinks would not be included in the room rent. In this case, guests must arrange for their own meals.

American Plan

The American plan or AP is the American style. The AP management is the room rate administration with an inclusive expense of the room rent and three meals. This is composed of breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for each guest. This type of business management was initiated in America. While in Europe, the AP Format is in the Full Pension (inclusive of room rent and meals). Usually the food for service is presented through Table d’Hotel, where the menu is fixed, and guests would have little option or none at all. This is usually presented in Resort Hotel, because this type of hotel is in the resort, away from communities, and inconvenience to find food. However, quite a number of tourists do not appreciate the AP Management, because it is independent, with a feeling of being enclosed in the limited space prepared by the hotel. This independent feeling impelled the AP format to be less popular. Therefore, a new format has been schemed, with some air of the AP.

Modified American Plan or MAP

The Modified American Plan or MAP is the improved American plan. When the popularity in the American plan was phasing out, the hotel tried to develop new methods, but would not leave out the AP completely. Because this type of management is advantageous to the hotel. Therefore, a new method has been revised by reducing the meal into two meals. Guests do not like to have lunch in the hotel, because they would have to hurry back for lunch. Should they be late, then they would have to pay for that meal without taking it, including the cost of the meal they had taken elsewhere. However, the MAP management is still advantageous to the hotel, because guests would still have to take breakfast and dinner in the hotel.

Half Pension or Demi Pension (DP)

The Half Pension or Demi Pension (DP) is the application of the MAP, where the room rate, is the combination of the room to the food and drinks of the breakfast. The guests have to find their own lunch and dinner, either within or outside the hotel. Usually, in this case, the hotel would inform guests that the breakfast is the Complimentary. In actual fact, the hotel already included the breakfast into the room rate. While in some places, the hotel would not specify that this meal has to be a breakfast, it might be any one meal that guests prefer but must be in the specific amount.

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