Accommodation and Lodging Facilities

Question 1

What do travellers need after a tiring / exhausting journey?

Answer 1

• A place / room to sleep and rest
• Entertainment and recreational (rest and relax) activities (gyms, massage, swimming pools, running / jogging track, hair salons, internet facilities)
• Food (dinner / supper / breakfast / lunch, tea)
• Healthcare (spas, clinics, etc)

Question 2

What does a traveller’s choice of accommodation and lodging depend on?

Answer 2

The traveller’s budget and preferences.

Question 3

What do hotels, motels, inns, hostels and serviced apartments do?

Answer 3

They provide services to meet the different needs and wants of their guests.

Question 4

When were the first hotels built?

Answer 4

More than 4000 years ago.

Question 5

Where did the first hotels show up at?

Answer 5

Along caravan routes in the Middle East (i.e. area covered by countries from Egypt to Iran inclusive) as well as along the main roads in ancient (i.e. very old) Rome.

Question 6

Who owned such early hotels? Who were the owners of such early hotels?

Answer 6

Private individuals

Question 7

What were such early hotels like?

Answer 7

Simply built

Question 8

What do such early hotels do?

Answer 8

Provide rooms for tired travellers to spend the night.

Question 9

Who owns the modern hotels of today?

Answer 9

Large business organisations

Question 10

What are hotel chains?

Answer 10

They are large business organisations that own hotels across the world.

Question 11

Name some world famous hotel chains.

Answer 11

Holiday Inn, Hilton Hotel, Hyatt Hotel, Four Seasons, etc.

Question 12

What services do modern hotels provide?

Answer 12

• a place to spend the night, i.e. accommodation and lodging facilities
• food
• entertainment
• healthcare
• recreational facilities

Question 13

Define “accommodation and lodging”.

Answer 13

Accommodation and lodging refers to a place for guests to stay, live or work in.

Question 14

How are accommodation and lodging facilities classified?

Answer 14

According to:

1. the different types of guests that the accommodation and lodging facilities appeal to (i.e. are the guests wealthy / well-off / rich or are they on a shoe-string / tight budget / backpackers?) ;
2. the types of services offered;
3. the needs of the guests; and
4. how much the guests are willing to pay, i.e. room rates (ranges from cheaper budget hotels, mid-priced hotels to the more expensive luxury hotel); and
5. room size;