In the travel industry hotels are very significant. Modern sociologists who de-construct them as architectural features see them as being much more significant than mere places to hire a room for the night.
The words 'inn' and 'hostel' are typically English words suggesting basic, unadorned functions of the human body like eating and sleeping. With its French ancestry 'hotel' suggests a place where these things may be done with some style. The word connotes in a subtle way the confluence of the crude and the cultured.
Accommodation is the primary purpose of hotels. Travellers need places to sleep peacefully and comfortably. The basic tariff will cover this, but may also include a great deal more, including a sense of luxury and prestige. Many establishments go to extreme lengths to compete in terms of finer features.
On the other hand each hotel has its unique character. It lives in a space between its location and the passing trade of travellers who come and go on a daily basis. Its unique character is derived from it function as a temporary stop in the transient flow of humanity. Hotel staff come to work every day and manage the delicate balance between those who come and go and those who come and stay.
The English novelist Arnold Bennett did a great deal to establish the hotel as a social feature forming a background against which human affairs are played out. He saw it as an ideal stage on which characters come and go. They are observed closely but discretely by hotel staff who very occasionally become involved with their guests.
More recently the TV series 'Fawlty Towers' explores in hyperbolic terms the situations that can arise where the public and private worlds clash. In countless film dramas, corridors and rooms are used as places where an outside threat may suddenly intrude into a private place. As Aristotle advised, this tension between opposing impulses is the essence of drama.
People who own a home with a spare bedroom often set themselves up to take a tiny share of the tourist market by entering the 'Bed and Breakfast' industry. Surprisingly the proliferation of Bed and Breakfast establishments does not seem to prevent the hotel industry to the extent that might be expected.
There are several reasons why hotels can easily withstand the combined assaults of many small competitors. A chain offers exactly the same standard of service in each of its units so that to stay in one is almost the same as to stay in another. Travel can be wearying and many people, at the end of a day like to stay in a place that they know will offer a standard of service that they know. They may also prefer privacy and discretion to the intrusive hospitality of an enthusiastic but quizzy host.
The words 'inn' and 'hostel' are typically English words suggesting basic, unadorned functions of the human body like eating and sleeping. With its French ancestry 'hotel' suggests a place where these things may be done with some style. The word connotes in a subtle way the confluence of the crude and the cultured.
Accommodation is the primary purpose of hotels. Travellers need places to sleep peacefully and comfortably. The basic tariff will cover this, but may also include a great deal more, including a sense of luxury and prestige. Many establishments go to extreme lengths to compete in terms of finer features.
On the other hand each hotel has its unique character. It lives in a space between its location and the passing trade of travellers who come and go on a daily basis. Its unique character is derived from it function as a temporary stop in the transient flow of humanity. Hotel staff come to work every day and manage the delicate balance between those who come and go and those who come and stay.
The English novelist Arnold Bennett did a great deal to establish the hotel as a social feature forming a background against which human affairs are played out. He saw it as an ideal stage on which characters come and go. They are observed closely but discretely by hotel staff who very occasionally become involved with their guests.
More recently the TV series 'Fawlty Towers' explores in hyperbolic terms the situations that can arise where the public and private worlds clash. In countless film dramas, corridors and rooms are used as places where an outside threat may suddenly intrude into a private place. As Aristotle advised, this tension between opposing impulses is the essence of drama.
People who own a home with a spare bedroom often set themselves up to take a tiny share of the tourist market by entering the 'Bed and Breakfast' industry. Surprisingly the proliferation of Bed and Breakfast establishments does not seem to prevent the hotel industry to the extent that might be expected.
There are several reasons why hotels can easily withstand the combined assaults of many small competitors. A chain offers exactly the same standard of service in each of its units so that to stay in one is almost the same as to stay in another. Travel can be wearying and many people, at the end of a day like to stay in a place that they know will offer a standard of service that they know. They may also prefer privacy and discretion to the intrusive hospitality of an enthusiastic but quizzy host.
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