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History

The word “hotel” referred to the private mansion formerly, a French concept with vocation other than the offer of lodging. Today, the English word “hotel” and its equivalent “hotel” have the same significance, and the expression “Private mansion” is used to refer to the old French concept. The French orthography with the circumflex accent usually met in English formerly, but it is seldom the case today (in the past, the French word was written “hostel”).

The oldest fashionable country inn of France still in service is the Hostellerie of the Cross Of Gold to Provins whose frontage is unchanged since the end of its construction in 1270. End 2004, it is a restaurant. It is located vis-a-vis the hotel of Vauluisant also of the 13th century.

Classification

The hotels are usually classified of categories according to the degree of comfort and the level of service which they propose. According to the countries, one can find the categories following (rougher with most luxurious):

of stars (from 1 to 7);
of the letters (of E with A);
of the classes (of the fourth to the first).

These classifications being purely national, the comfort and the level of service can be very variable from one country to another, for the same category. The classifications rest on objective criteria: surface rooms, television station, bathroom on the floor or in the room, etc

The cost and the quality of the hotel rooms are usually revealing range and service type offered. Because of the colossal growth of tourism in the world during the last decades of the 20th century, quality was improved considerably, particularly on the level of the small establishments. Systems of classification however were set up in order to facilitate the comparison between the establishments, that going from to five stars being most current.

One can rent a room at the year sometimes, in the month, at the night, and sometimes per hour.

Services

The arranged rooms in a summary way with only one bed, a wall cupboard, a table and a wash-hand basin largely made place with more comfortable rooms with contiguous bathroom and air conditioning. They can be equipped with a telephone, an alarm clock, a television and a connection Internet high banc. On the other hand, the radio operator receiver is increasingly rare there. One can find also there mini-bar, which often includes a small refrigerator containing of the snacks and drinks (to be regulated at the time of the departure). Lastly, one can find the necessary one also there to make and coffee: cups, spoons, electric kettle and sachets of the, instant coffee, sugar and the containers of cream or milk.

With the the United Kingdom, the law obliges the hotels to serve as the meals and drinks with the public at certain hours. However, the small hotels not being subjected to this regulation, they are rather frequently met.

The hotels capsules Japanese offer as for them installations and a space minimalists.

Hotel-shop

Born in North America, the concept of the hotel-shop indicates establishments with the intimate and generally luxurious or original framework. The hotel-shop are distinguished from the hotel large chains or the marks of hotels by offering comfort levels, services and of equipment exceptional and personalized.

The hotel-shop are furnished with elegance and (or) style and according to a precise topic. Although generally much smaller than the traditional hotels, the hotel-shop, which have between 3 and 100 rooms, generally offer the telephone, a connection Internet wi-fi, a “honesty bar” and often the cable or paid television. The personnel of the hotel ensures a service the customers 24:00 per day. Much hotel-shop comprises a restaurant, and the majority comprise a bar and living rooms, which can be also to be open to the general public.

A small percentage of the market of the voyage is made up informed travellers, which attach a great importance to quietude, the luxury and the quality of the service. Because this market is typically made up travellers of businesses, a nonseasonal, lucrative and faithful market segment, it constitutes the main target of incomes of the owners of hotel-shop.

Famous hotels

Certain hotels acquired their fame by accommodating prestigious events or characters who marked the history, like the Schloss Cecilenhof in Potsdam, in Germany, made famous for the Conférence of Potsdam, which gathered Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin during the Second world war in 1945. One will name also the Château Frontenac, known for the Conférence of Quebec, which gathered Roosevelt, Churchill and King. The prominence of the hotel in the urban landscape of Quebec also contributed to its notoriety. Other establishments named certain dishes or drinks, like the hotel Waldorf Astoria with New York, known for its salad waldorf, or the Raffles hotel of Singapore, where the cocktail Singapore sling was invented. One can also quote in example the Sacher hotel of Vienna (Austria), where Sachertorte was invented. Certain hotels became in vogue following film turnings, like the Large Hotel Europe with Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia), where James Bond in film with great success GoldenEye remained. In France, certain hotels, such as Carlton or Martinez, become the center of the world during the festival of film of Cannes.

By the means of the popular culture, many hotels became familiar of the general public, like Ritz of London (the United Kingdom) and Chelsea of New York (the United States), topic of many songs and theater of supposed the aggression with stabs of Nancy Spungen by his/her friend Sid Vicious. The hotels which enter the popular folklore are often attended by the celebrities, which is the case for Ritz and Chelsea. Among the other famous hotels, one finds in particular Beverly Hills Hotel, the hotel Beautiful-Air and the Marmont Castle in California (E. - U.), Watergate Complex with Washington cd. (E. - U.), the hotel Astoria de Saint-Pétersbourg (Russia), the George-V hotel and the Ritz hotel of Paris (France), Palazzo Versace of Gold Coast in Queensland (Australia), the Hermitage hotel and the hotel of Paris with Monaco (Riviera) and the Leningradskaya hotel with Moscow (Russia). the Dar-Tlidjene hotel has Ain-Taya (Algiers) first bording house in Algeria. The hotel Madonna Inn, by her side kitsh, is the principal attraction of San Luis Obispo (California)

Atypical lodgings

Many hotels can be regarded as destinations in oneself because of the unusual character of lodging offered or its immediate environment.

tree-hotels

Certain hotels, such as Costa Rica Tree House, located in the natural reserve of Gandoca-Manzanillo at the Costa Rica, or Treetops Hotel in the Aberdare national park with the Kenya, are true huts in the trees since they are built in alive trees.

The Ariau turns, close to Manaus to the Brazil, are located on Rio Negro, in the middle of Amazonia. Bill Gates even invested in this establishment, where it was made build a continuation with telephone and connection Internet by satellite.

Bayram' S Tree Houses located at Olympos in Turkey is another of these tree-hotels.

hotel-caves

Desert Cave Hotel Serves It Cellar Hotel in Coober Pedy in Australia of the south and Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (of the name of the author) with Guadix in Spain as several hotels of Cappadocia in Turkey have the characteristic to be arranged in natural caves, some of them also comprising rooms under ground.

hotel-capsules

The hotel-capsules indicate a particular type of economic hotel enough running to the Japan.

hotels of ice

The hotels of ice, such as Ice Hotel of Jukkasjärvi in Sweden, are made of snow and ice. They found in spring and are rebuilt the come winter.

hotels of snow

Mammut Snow Hotel is located in Finland in the castle of snow Kemi, largest of the world. In addition to the hotel, the castle includes/understands in particular a court, a restaurant and a vault for the marriages. Furniture and decoration are made of snow and ice. Even sculptures there are found.

Laino Snow Hotel is another example of hotel of snow. It is located at Lapland, close to Ylläs, in Finland.

hotels with gardens

These hotels are located in places already famous for their gardens before a hotel is established there. Among them, one finds Gravetye Manor, residence of William Robinson, and Cliveden, whose installation was conceived by Charles Barry and the rosery by Geoffrey Jellicoe.

hotels under water

Until 2005, the only hotel offering a room under accessible water without autonomous diving was Utter Inn in Lake Mälaren in Sweden. It however comprises only one room. The Jules' Undersea Lodge in Key Largo in Florida, accessible only in autonomous diving, comprises some hardly more.

Hydropolis Hydropolis is an ambitious project of hotel trade of luxury to Dubai, with the United Arab Emirates, all in the south of the Persian Gulf, aiming at building 220 continuations with 20 meters under water. It will be equipped with two domes in water surface and a tunnel of train under water, all compounds of transparent materials such as glass or the acrylic resin.

Other strange lodgings

Library Hotel of New York, a hotel of 10 stages, has the single characteristic to be arranged according to the decimal system.

The Rodgers Center, called before Skydome of Toronto (Canada), is the only stage connected to a hotel, which comprises 70 rooms giving directly on the ground.

Built on an artificial island, the hotel Burj Al-Arab of Dubai to the shape of a sail of boat.

Hotels holders of world records

Highest

With its 321 meters, the Hôtel Burj-Al-Arab of Dubai is most of the world. However, this title will be perhaps charmed to him by a less famous hotel, Ryugyong Hotel of Pyongyang which was to make 330 meters in height and from which construction began in 1987 but given up in 1992. It is however not very probable that its construction is completed.

Largest

At the present time, the largest hotel of the world is the First World Hotel. Located in the station of mountain of Genting Highlands in Malaysia, it has 6.118 rooms on the whole. Contiguous with this hotel made up of two turns, one finds First World Plaza, to trust of his complex of 46.450m ² composed of a park with interior topic, shopping malls, spaces of casino and restaurants.

Previously, the largest hotel of the world was the MGM Grand Las Vegas with Las Vegas with the Nevada (E. - U.), which comprised 5.690 rooms.

Oldest

According to the Guiness book of the records, the oldest hotel still in exploitation is Hoshi Ryokan in Awazu in Japan. Opened into 717, it is equipped with a thermal spring.

More photographed

It is the Château Frontenac, of Quebec, which holds this somewhat uncommon record.

The profession

One names “hotel” the owner, the president or the DG of a hotel or an hotel group.

To live with the hotel

The American billionaire Howard Hughes lived the major part of his life in the hotels. With its entourage, he moved hotel in hotel of Beverly Hills in Boston before deciding to settle in Las Vegas and to become a tycoon of the casinos. Less than one month after its arrival on November 27th, 1966, Hughes made an public offering of purchase in order to become purchaser of Serves Inn. The 8th stage of the hotel became the nerve center of its empire and the apartment terrace of the 9th stage becomes its personal residence. Thereafter, Hughes moved in the Bahamas, in Vancouver, in London and in several other places, always by electing residence with the apartment terrace of the hotel to the upper floor. Between 1966 and 1968, it also bought several other hotel-casinos of the Maffia: Castaways, New Frontier, Landmark Hotel and Casino, Sands and Silver Slipper.

Coco Chanel elected residence with the Ritz hotel of Paris during more than 30 years, and this, until its death at the 87 years age in a continuation which bears its name now.

The king Pierre II of Yugoslavia passed the major part of the Second world war to the Claridge hotel of London. His/her son, Aleksandar Karađorđević, were born in this hotel.

The prince Felix Yusupov resided at the Vendôme hotel of Paris.

It is believed that Aloïs Brunner, a war criminal Nazi of Austrian origin, would have resided at the Meridian hotel of Damas in Syria under the name of Georg Fischer.

After détrônébeing détrôné by his son the Qabous sultan of Oman in 1970, the sultan Saïd bin Timour resided at the Dorchester hotel of London, where he died in 1972.

Eleftherios Venizelos, a diplomat and Greek statesman resided at the Ritz hotel of Paris at the time of its exile in France of 1935 to 1936.

Michel Polnareff lived during some time with the royal hotel heap in the Eighties

The hotel in works of fiction

In certain detective novels, humorous or with enigmas, the authors chose to locate the action in a hotel. Indeed, the hotel offers the mysterious and anonymous framework perfect to make evolve/move various characters. Hotels also appear in films, televised series, songs and even of the horse-gears of parks to topics.

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