Hotel industry
The hotel industry is the division of the sector of the hospitality industry that are equally accommodation and meals ( catering ) for guests as a service against payment offer (room and board) . The hotel industry is one of the mainstays of tourism .
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The hotel industry includes:
- the hotel industry : Hotels are catering establishments that offer a combination of accommodation and catering on a larger scale
- Guesthouses : Here the reception is not always manned, the hotel business usually takes place in a private setting ( private accommodation ), as well as guest houses / hostels and holiday homes
- Guest houses , priority catering businesses for walk-in customers with only possible overnight stays for house guests , including rest houses
- Homes (accommodation providers of care ): accommodation of a particular clientele circle, unlike the other companies offer homes probably catering but no service - this is the term we also summarizes shelters / s, while Alien and boarding houses under the term pension fall
- as well as the additional hotel business, other forms of hospitality, which mostly function on a fundamentally different basis of supply
Not the hotel industry is one of the pure gastronomy, such as restaurants , cafes , snack , lunch , catering , corporate catering , etc. (though many hospitality businesses, some of these services offer with) and the pure accommodation.
Colloquially and derogatory, a huge hotel with over 150 beds is also called a bed castle.
The hotel industry as an economic factor
Switzerland
The hotel industry forms the backbone of Swiss tourism. Although the number of beds has changed little in recent years, the quality of the accommodation has always been adapted to changing needs.
Hotelleriesuisse has set extended minimum criteria for facilities and services for the definition of a hotel:
- Accommodation and residence
- at least ten rooms
- Running cold and warm water in every room
- appropriate standard and living comfort
- Shower or bath, toilets freely usable
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Catering
- The guest must be able to take at least breakfast in the house.
The Swiss hotel industry has 5,600 hotels with 258,700 beds in 140,500 rooms. For comparison: London has just under 200,000 beds with a larger population than Switzerland, so Switzerland has a very high bed density in relation to the number of inhabitants, albeit with a downward trend. In addition, small businesses are increasingly being displaced by large ones. The hotel industry is a typical SME sector. Of the hotel establishments, 73.1% have fewer than 50 beds and 62.8% fewer than 20 rooms. It should also be noted that the comfort in the hotels is continuously improving. In 2003 there were 123,600 of the 140,500 rooms in Switzerland with a shower or bath in the room and 14,800 rooms with only running water. Just over 2,000 rooms have no running water in the room. The majority of hotel guests come from abroad, so the hotel industry is an industry with indirect exports .
This fact is mainly used as an argument for a special rate for the VAT. Used. The mountain health resorts have the largest share of the total turnover in the industry, with the city hotels showing the better occupancy of their rooms and beds. Of the twelve tourist regions in Switzerland, the Graubünden region comes out on top. The summer season attracts around 10% more guests to Switzerland than the winter half-year.
The Swiss hotel industry generates annual sales of around CHF 8.5 billion, of which around 41.5% is attributable to the pure accommodation business. The hotel industry is a service-intensive industry and around CHF 3.5 billion in wages are paid out every year.
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- ↑ Classification of Austrian company statistics, Statistics Austria
- ↑ Bettenburg. on: dict.cc