Taking a Look at Types of Lodging

The accommodation sector is about giving a warm welcome and taking the time to give customers a great experience. This sector includes all businesses that provide a place to sleep as part of their offer to the guests, including hotels, lodges, motels, backpackers, holiday parks and serviced apartments.

Lodging has changed and improved a lot in the last 100 years. When hotels were first becoming popular in the 1900’s people had to share rooms with other strangers because hotels then, did not have a variety of rooms where you can get your own. They had very uncomfortable and small beds in very small room, most of them did not have a bathroom in the hotel room (picture 1). The hotels replaced the old beds with comfortable ones (picture 2, now) so people can enjoy and allow them to sleep comfortably. In 2004, after three years of declining revenues, the U.S. lodging industry returns to positive profit growth. They made luxury hotels so more people can be attracted to them, they have much more independent space with their own bathrooms and TVs

Hilton Hotels is one of the biggest players in the US lodging industry. It contributes to about 9% of the total rooms in US lodging market. It has presence in over 78 countries with more than 2500 hotels. Lodging industry is highly capital intensive industry, so to reduce capital expenditure Hilton Hotels opted for self-owned Hotels as well as franchising model with the real estate owners. One of the key features of lodging industry is low switching costs for customers. There is very little margin to differentiate from the major competitors in the industry which include Marriott international, IHG, Accor etc.

Accommodation is not always provided in a timely manner, is often insufficient, and sometimes not provided at all. At the elementary and secondary levels, other difficulties include: delays at many stages of the accommodation process, a large backlog in the processing of claims for special education funding, long waiting lists for professional assessments, and delays in the provision of special education programs and services. At the post-secondary level, information about services and supports is not always accessible, there are delays in accessing accommodations, and the right of students to confidentiality is not always

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Premier Inn is the name of a British Budget Hotel chain running the largest hotel brand in the United Kingdom. Hotel chain is running 690 hotels with more than 50,000 rooms built in different countries. The hotel chain listed in London Stock Exchange in 1987 with brand name of “Whitebread” and started trading of its services under the chain of “Travel Inn” in order to compete with travellodges. Business operation of Premier Inn is not only limited to city centers but also covering suburbs and airports locations Hotel chain is following the expansion and acquisition policies since the time of its inception and acquired hotel chain named as Premier Lodge in 2004 (Whitebread, 2013). This acquisition increased the number of hotels and the profit as well. Premier Lodge was running with 141 hotels and contributed 70% of the total profit of “Whitebread”. Target market of the hotel chain is not only the leisure visitors and families but also the world business class seeking countless business and travel facilities. Award winning business services, comfortable sleep on king size beds and delicious breakfast are further adding value for the hotel chain while elevating the status of Premier Inn to be the first choice of families and business class to take their stay decisions at Premier Inn. The ambitious and high paced profitable progress of the Hotel chain is opening new ways of expansion and development. The hotel chain is therefore, planning to increase around 45% i.e. 75,000 rooms

Accommodation : Places of tourists' interest must be capable enough to provide good accommodation and catering facilities. A type of accommodation required by tourists depends on their lives-styles, standard of living, capacity to spend money, nature of services expected, etc. Classification of accommodation centers, i.e. various hotels, motels, dormitories, etc. on basic of rating like five stars and below are essential so that tourists can make a proper choice and plan their trips appropriately. Generally, tourism mostly prospers in those areas where good lodging and food facilities are available at reasonable

There are 12 leading hotel chains which have various branches within those chains. Each accommodate different numbers of guests and different types of guests. Before 2008 there had been massive expansion in preparation for a large upturn in the industry however when the expansions were finished the market was in withdrawal leading to the largest downturn in the lodging industry. The major economic characteristics influencing the lodging industry have to do with business meetings and conference related travel taking 40% of the business in the whole industry of 2010. The hotel industry is dominated

The purpose of this paper is to outline how differences in consumer psychology affect the marketing of real estate. For this purpose I have used the different theories of motivation, values, self and self-identity. Through the help of literature review on these theories, and through interviews of three different customers, I have tried to identify the link between a customer's psychology and his/her choice of residence. The three respondents are of varying backgrounds, ages and occupations and so are their choices in real estate. Each customer's ranking of the five options presented to them reflects a number of things about them. They show what drives customers towards making certain choices, how the backgrounds of each person and other demographic factors such as age, level of success in life, education, occupation and lifestyle affect their personalities which, in turn, affect the choices they make. I have also attempted to link the values certain customers have and how they influence preferences. Finally, after a complete analysis of our three respondents, I have given reasons for their choices and attempted to create certain customer profiles that marketers must spot, and the kind of products they could sell to these customers. Certain marketing tactics have also been included for different customer profiles. And in the end, I have given recommendations to marketers concerning what needs to be changed in the way they market products and the products

Today, technology continues to evolve from the gadgets like, wireless internet, smartphones, tablets etc. it is more convenient for them to browse a hotels to stay in and the best hotels or restaurants to visit. Few years from now all the hotels and restaurant will be fully supported by the technology, more and more customers will be stun to hotels and restaurants because of the impact of

As mentioned earlier in Chapter 1, China Lodging Group is a multi-brand hotel group which as per now manages seven hotels with each having a specific target of customers. These Hotels are Hi Inn, Han Ting Hotel, Elan Hotel, Star-way Hotel, JI Hotel, Manxin Hotel, and Joya Hotel. Its mission statement is to create great brands of hotels that guests love. The group predicts to be owning over a quarter of the hotel market share in the next five years to come. The two major objectives that the company has set for the next five years to ensure that they attain their goal is to build one large five-star hotel in the heart of China Capital’s serene outskirts and to ensure that they hire enough

Lodging or hospitality industry is a type of residential accommodation, which provides use of room for the tourists or the people who are away from their home accompanied by the food service & other service products for the duration of time the customer has paid for.

Boutique hotel is a niche market started in North America and the United Kingdom to describe the modern and luxurious design along with quirky hotel environments (Olga, 2009 as cited in Khosravi, Malek, & Ekiz, 2014)

The hotel industry is one of the most important segments of the Hospitality in large. Working in hotels allows its employees to have fun, emerge in new cultures on a daily basis and be able to advance further in the career. The lodging industry is one of the most rewarding, yet most challenging fields to work for. Confucius once said “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Some people will choose this career path in need of money, but those who choose it out of passion will understand the power in the saying above. “The lodging industry is a more than $155 billion industry that includes approximately 53,000 properties with almost 5,000,000 guestrooms” (Walker, 2015, p. 76). This field is continuously growing due to the trend of using management contracts and franchising, since it allows brands to expand rapidly without using their own financial resources (Walker, 2015, p. 76). In today’s technology driven society it is more important to deliver and over exceed guest expectations than ever. The influence of social media has increased drastically, which can either help or hurt the business due positive or negative word of mouth. Working in a hotel takes a lot of courage, hard work and perseverance, but it also takes a lot of passion, love and hospitality spirit to overcome difficult situations. The purpose of this research paper is to explore the career of a hotel general manager in order

Hotels as we know them now with private rooms, elegant lobbies, restaurants, lounges, meeting rooms, banquet rooms, recreation facilities and