Introduction of Hotel

Hotel

Concept and Meaning 

       A hotel or inn may be defined as an establishment whose primary business is to provide lodging facilities for the general public in the meantime, it must provided one or more of the available facilities, which include food and beverage service, room attendant service, concierge, bell and door attendant service, laundry and valet service, etc. such service are provided to those who are in a fit condition to be received and have the capacity to pay for service rendered

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The word hotel may be formulated by the concept of hospitality service of which the primary objectives is not provide lodge and foods to the people who are economically, mentally and physically able to receive. there are many other properties in the field of hospitality business, such as lodge, guesthouse, rest house, restaurant, etc. but the concept of hotel is only regarded with the combination of all these activities. this actually refers to address overall expectation and needs of human beings in the accept ions standard, and needs of human beings in the acceptable standard, and only than the property will come "HOTEL".

The system of modern management of the hostel as absolutely motivated and guided by the technological, sociological, economical, cultural and political development, and upsurge. Despite the globalization of the world tourism and its Networking expansion-hotel industries have scientifically been changed since last five decades. Due to functional and operational areas of the entire department of the hotel, it offers personal and material service to guests. Basically in the hotel establishment, department are divided into two division.

* Room division

* Food and Beverage division

Room division consists of the front office, housekeeping and sales and marketing. food and beverage division consists of food production(kitchen), food and beverage services(restaurant dining and bar), function catering, room service etc. These are both functional and operational activities, which as planned, organized, managed and controlled by executive directors and the top level executives. The addition other essential departments etc. are also created to support these departments for smooth operation of the hotel business.

Etymology

         The word hotel is derived from the French hotel (coming from the same origin as hospital), which referred to a French version of a building seeing frequent visitors, and providing care, rather than a place offering accommodation. In contemporary French usage, hotel now has the same meaning as the English term, and hôtel particular is used for the old meaning, as well as "hotel" in some place names such as Hotel-Dieu (in Paris), which has been a hospital since the Middle Ages. The French spelling, with the circumflex, was also used in English, but is now rare. The circumflex replaces the 's' found in the earlier hostel spelling, which over time took on a new, but closely related meaning. Grammatically, hotels usually take the definite article – hence "The Astoria Hotel" or simply "The Astoria."

History

      Facilities offering hospitality to travelers have been a feature of the earliest civilizations. In Greco-Roman culture hospitals for recuperation and rest were built at thermal baths. During the Middle Ages various religious orders at monasteries and abbeys would offer accommodation for travellers on the road.

The precursor to the modern hotel was the inn of medieval Europe, possibly dating back to the rule of Ancient Rome. These would provide for the needs of travelers, including food and lodging, stabling and fodder for the traveler's horse(s) and fresh horses for the mail coach. Famous London examples of inns include the George and the Tabard. A typical layout of an inn had an inner court with bedrooms on the two sides, with the kitchen and parlour at the front and the stables at the back.

For a period of about 200 years from the mid-17th century, coaching inns served as a place for lodging for coach travelers (in other words, a roadhouse). Coaching inns stabled teams of horses for stagecoaches and mail coaches and replaced tired teams with fresh teams. Traditionally they were seven miles apart but this depended very much on the terrain.

Tremont House in Boston, USA, a luxury hotel, the first to provide indoor plumbing

Some English towns had as many as ten such inns and rivalry between them was intense, not only for the income from the stagecoach operators but for the revenue for food and drink supplied to the wealthy passengers. By the end of the century, coaching inns were being run more professionally, with a regular timetable being followed and fixed menus for food.

Inns began to cater for richer clients in the mid-18th century, and consequently grew in grandeur and the level of service provided. One of the first hotels in a modern sense was opened in Exeter in 1768, although the idea only really caught on in the early 19th century. In 1812 Mivart's Hotel opened its doors in London, later changing its name to Claridge's.

Hotels proliferated throughout Western Europe and North America in the 19th century, and luxury hotels, including Tremont House and Astor House in the United States,[4] Savoy Hotel in the United Kingdom and the Ritz chain of hotels in London and Paris, began to spring up in the later part of the century, catering to an extremely wealthy clientele