Classification of Hotels by Location, Guest, Facilities, Rooms and Plan

Hotels are classified according to the hotel size, location, target markets, levels of service , facilities provided, number of rooms , ownership and affiliation etc.

Hotels on the basis of location

Downtown / Commercial / City Hotel

These hotels are situated at the heart of city, basically designed to carting sheet stay business clients. The hotel is very expensive at the startup cost is very high.
Hotel Vaishali is an example of Downtown hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal.




Resorts

These hotels are eco-friendly commercial hotel, basically designed for long stag guest entitled from hill, bank of the river, where the natural beauty has its significances. In European countries, resorts are seasonally operated cratering establishment. Resorts provide all the facilities as offered star categories hotel link as:-
Godavary village resorts is in Godavary.


Transit Hotels

Transit hotel are usually located such as airport, railway, station, bus station, harbor or ports to catering the passenger. These hotels are within airside security/passport checkpoints and close to the airport terminals. [Wiki]

Airport hotel an example of transit hotel.


Motels

The words motel was derived from two interrelated words. Motor and Hotel from the Milestone Mo-Tel of San Luis Obispo, California. America motel are hotel situation on highway having facilities, parking, lodging, foods and maintenance. The target people are passenger, and Motels are designed usually with parking area for motor vehicles.


Sub-Urban Hotels

Sub-urban hotel located away from city center it has advantage rate are moderate or law such hotels are ideal for budget traveler and also the quite breaking organization for their conference seminar.

Depending on length of guest stay

1. Inns
2. Apartment
3. Family Hotels

Inns

Inns located on country side or outside the city. Inns are family hotel for short staying guest. Inns an older from modern hotels Which is orients from Island, It provide limited facilities with logging and foods these day inns are being popular mostly in America and are operated as holiday inn (Chain Hotel).


Apartment Hotels

Apartment hotels are generally made for long staying guest with all the facilities. The rates are generally charged on weekly or monthly raise. It has peaceful surrounding providing self-cooking and serving facility with bed rooms, living room, denying room and store, generally long staying like scholar researcher and people working in project.


Family Hotels

These types of hotel are generally operated all the family members. The hotel provide personal services to the guest in a family environment the length of stay of guest in this types hotel may be for shorter or longer provide.

Depending upon the facilities offers

Depending upon the facilities provided the hotels are categorized under different star grading ranges from 1 to 5 star hotels. There is another category of hotel coming up is 7 star hotel with advances technology supplementary facilities and services. Greater the facilities, higher the star rating.

As star hotel, which is the highest rating with provided different facilities such as, center year condition, stander room largest, world to world carpeting, 24 hour hot and cold water, round clock room, service shopping arcades, swimming pool, specialty restaurants. Including coffee shop, bar, disco, sport facilities, health clubs, business center etc.

7-star hotel – Buri Al Arab, Dubai

6-star hotel – Cron Macao, China, St. Regis shanghai, China. Palazzo Versace, Australia

Depending on number of rooms

1. Small range hotels usually has 1 to 25 rooms.
2. Medium range hotels are the hotels with 26 to 100 rooms.
3. Big/large hotels consists of 101 to 300 rooms.
4. Very big/large hotels can consist 300 and more rooms.

According to plan

1. American plan (AP)
2. Modified American plan (MAP)
3. Bed and breakfast plan (B & B), continental plan (CP)
4. European plan (EP)

American plan

American plan consists of room charge + 3 meals (Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner)


Modified American plan (MAP)

This plan consists of room charge + 2 meals (Breakfast + Lunch / Dinner)


Bed and breakfast plan (B & B), continental plan (CP)

This plan consists of room charge + Breakfast.


European plan (EP)

This plan consists of room charge only.