Module-1.
TYPES OF ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation
Traditional Supplementary
Secondary
Hotels
Accommodations
Commerci Residentia Resort
1 al Hotels 2 l 3 Hotels 4
Hotels
Floating Capsule Airport Internationa l Hotels
Hotels 5 Hotels 6 Hotels 7
International Commercial
Hotels ❑
Designed to cateHr toothteeblussiness
❑ International Hotels are modern western
style Hotels. traveler.
❑ Located in metropolitan and other larger ❑ Commercial hotels are generally situated in
cities. the city centre.
❑ Reclassified on the basis of internationally ❑ These hotels provide high standard rooms
accepted system of classification and amenities, along with high speed
❑ The Classification is done by hotels and internet connectivity and conference halls.
restaurants approval and classification ❑ They also provide in-house secretarial
committee services, as well as facilities such as letter
❑ Tourism /A.D.G drafting, typing, and fax and photocopying
of document for the convenience of their
❑ guTehset.guest
amenities may
include
complimentary
access
newspapers,
led
morning
coffee, cable
television and
Residential Hotel Resort Hotels
❑ They are termed as apartment hotel or
pension. ❑ Caters to the need of holiday makers.
❑ They are apartment houses complete with hotel ❑ They are located at tourist destination such
services as hill station, sea beaches and
❑ It is similar to renting an apartment. countryside
❑ But no fixed contract and occupants can check ❑ These hotels have a very calm and natural
out whenever they wish. ambience.
❑ provides one or more of the following services: ❑ They are mostly away from cities and are
housekeeping, telephone, desk, or bellhop located in pollution –free environs
service, or the furnishing or laundering of linens. ❑ These hotels combine stay facilities with
❑ The Tariff of the rooms is charged on monthly/ leisure activities such as golf, summer and
winter sports, etc.
half yearly/yearly basis
❑ The occupancy in resorts is
These hotels were developed in United States of
normally higher during
America
vacation time and weekends
❑ Example: Lotus when guest want to take a
Apartment hotel, break from their weekly
Chennai routine.
Example: Taj Fort Aguada
Beach Resort, Poovar Island
Resort
Floating Hotels Capsule
Hotels
❑ Floatels are type of lodging ❑ It is also known as pod
properties that float on the surface hotels
of water. ❑ developed in Japan that features many
❑ This category consists of all small bed-sized rooms known as
lodgings properties that are built capsules.
on the top of rats or ❑ Capsule hotels provide cheap, basic
semi-submersible platforms, and overnight accommodation for guests who
includes cruise liners and do not require or who cannot afford larger,
houseboats
Airport Hotels
❑ Airport Hotels are situated in the vicinity of airport
and other ports of entry.
❑ Offering all the services of a commercial hotel,
these hotels are generally patronized by the
passengers who need a stopover en route their
journey.
❑ Example: Hotel centaur, Mumbai and
Radisson, New Delhi
Supplementary accommodation are other type of accommodation which are not
conventional hotel type. Supplementary accommodation can be defined as the
premises which offer accommodation but not other services. The following are
the principle form of supplementary accommodation
1 2 3 4 5 6
Youth Camping Tourist Bed &
Motel Pensi
Holiday Breakfast
Hostel sites on Establishme
Villages
nt
Motels are mostly located outside the city limit in the country side along the main high
way preferably at an important road junction
Youth Hostel can be defined as a building which
offers clean, moderate and inexpensive shelter to
young people who exploring their own country or
other country travelling for holiday or educational
purposes
This forms of accommodation provides
closeness to nature
The term is typically used in
European countries. It is basically
provides shelter with few or no
facilitiies
This holiday villages are usually based on
family unit , bath and kitchen. The village are
self sufficient providing almost all
requirements of the guests
The lodging establishment
provides lodging with breakfast
