Types of Lodging
an establishment providing accommodations, meals, and other services for travelers and tourists.
What is a hotel?
This department is the nerve center of a hotel. This is where you welcome the guests, carry their luggage, help them register, give them their room keys and mail, answer questions about the activities in the hotel and surrounding area, and finally check them out.
What is the Front Office Department?
This brand was founded in 1957 by the Pritzker family
ex) Andaz, Hyatt Regency
What is Hyatt?
This is the lowest category of hotel that provides the rooms and meals at cheap cost these hotels offer the facilities which are required to fulfill the basic requirements.
What is a budget hotel?
This city has 23/35 largest hotels on the planet.
What is Las Vegas?
This type of lodging property is designed to provide for the special needs of conventions and trade shows
What is a convention hotel?
This department is responsible for the immaculate care and upkeep of all guest rooms and public spaces. These workers have an eye for detail and a commitment to the training, development and motivation of a diverse group of talented employees.
What is Housekeeping?
This hotel brand became the first hotel company to introduce a multi-hotel reservation system
ex) Waldorf Astoria, DoubleTree
What is Hilton?
This is the highest category of hotels, high paying guest stay here and have the right to expect excellence in service, in rooms, in dining, and in everything else a good hotel offers. These types of hotels usually have four and five star ratings.
What is a luxury hotel?
This hotel hotel is the tallest hotel in the world standing at 1,165.84 ft.
What is the the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai?
This is an inexpensive place to stay where sleeping rooms, bathrooms, and kitchen facilities are shared, and there is no housekeeping.
What is a hostel?
This department is responsible for maintaining high quality of food and service, food costing, managing restaurants, bars, etc.
What is F & B?
This brand started as a hot shoppe in 1927 and began the merge with Starwood in 2016.
ex) Moxy, Element, Delta
What is Marriott?
This is the second highest level of market price segments.
What is an upscale hotel?
This is the city where the first hotel was built in the U.S. in 1793.
What is Washington D.C. ?
The hotel was called the Union Public Hotel
This is a private house offering one or more guestrooms and usually serves a meal in the morning
What is a bed and breakfast?
This department is responsible in repairing and maintaining the plant and machinery,water treatment and distribution,boilers and water heating,sewage treatment, external and common area lightning, fountains and water features etc.
What is engineering?
This brand dates all the way back to 1777 when William Bass opens a brewery.
ex) Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo
What is InterContinental Hotel Group (IHG)
This is the second lowest segment of market price. Also known as select service hotels.
What is an economy hotel?
What is the average room rate of a hotel today?
What is $110.89?
a hotel with a fully equipped kitchenette in each guest room, that accepts reservations and does not require a lease.
What is an extended stay hotel?
This department is responsible for the administration of an impartial and internal justice system which will promote transparency and openness in organizational communication. It also serves as a progressive voice in a common system and strives to ensure competitiveness in the conditions of service for staff.
What is Human Resources?
This brand was built in the height of the Jazz Age in New York.
ex) TRYP, Howard Johnson
What is Wyndham?
This type of hotel is neither the most expensive nor the cheapest.
What is a mid-price hotel?
This is what AHLA was originally called when founded in 1910.
What is the American Hotel Protective Association?