Active Vocabulary

Accommodations - shelter, food, drink and other services for travelers or transients.

Inn - an establishment offering shelter and food for travellers. The term was customary in the days of travel by horse; it has been revived because it conveys an idea of old-fashioned hospitality.

Tavern - in modern usage, a place that serves alcoholic drinks. Formerly it was an alternative term for an inn.

Motel - a shortened form for motor hotel. A motel provides accommodations for the traveller and a parking place for his or her

automobile. It is built especially to provide a service to motorists.

Resort - a place or area to which people travel for recreational purposes. Hotels are important features of resort areas.

Convention - a meeting of a business or professional group for the purpose of exchanging information, electing officers and discussing.

Deluxe - of the highest quality. Hotels rated as deluxe offer the greatest possible convenience, comfort and service to their guests. Such hotels are often called luxury hotels and are generally the most expensive ones.

Labour-intensive - requiring a large number of people for the services thatare provided by a business or industry. The accommodations industry is labour-intensive.

Luxury hotel - provides every facility a wealthy guest might need.

Resort hotel - is situated in a place where tourists like to stay, often near the sea, lake or in the mountains. Guests usually book it in advance.

Commercial hotel - is often situated in a town centre and provides
accommodation for travelling businessmen, staying only one or two nights.
Congress hotel - provides everything necessary for large meetings and conferences, with a lecture room, theatre and exhibition facilities.
Airport hotel - provides accommodation for people going to or coming from other countries, usually only staying for one night.
Country house hotel - is situated in pleasant scenery and provides comfortable but informal accommodation for people who want to relax in a quiet place.

Guest house - provides low-priced accommodation, usually on a small scale for holiday visitors or for long-stay guests.
B& B - is a small hotel, a kind of boarding-house, which provides home-like low-priced accommodation and the morning meal for visitors. The letters B& B stand for " bed and breakfast".

Full board or expansion - it is a room and all meals included.

Half-board or demi-pension - includes the room plus breakfast and one other meal (lunch or dinner).

Bed and breakfast (B& B) or continental plan - it is the rate that includes the room and breakfast (the breakfast itself may be " English" or " continental").

European plan - it is the rate for a room alone, with no meals included at all.