Comprehension Questions:
1.Why do many resorts remain open during the “off season”?
2.What services does a residential hotel offer to the guests?
3. Whom does a motel mainly cater to?
4. What is the meaning for “permanent guests”?
5. Can you tell the differences among these four classifications of the hotels?
Answers:
1.Many resorts have found the expense of remaining open during the “off season” to be lower than the cost of closing down, maintenance, reopening, and often, recruiting many new staff members.
2. Essentially, a residential hotel is an apartment building offering maid service, a dining room, room meal service, and possibly a cocktail lounge.
3. It mainly caters to the guest who is traveling for pleasure with his family as well as commercial travelers.
4. Permanent guests refer to the guest who often patronize the same hotel regularly.
5. The commercial hotel directs its appeal primarily to the individual traveling for business reasons.
The resort hotel caters to vacationers and recreation-minded people.
The residential hotel is typical in American because many Americans developed the habit of living permanently in hotels, and this branch of the industry evolved primarily to provide for these individuals.
Motels are mainly for the person traveling for pleasure with his family as well as the commercial travelers.