الفنادق Hotels هي عصب نشاط السياحة في أي دولة من دول العالم المتحضر ، فلا يمكن تصور قيام نشاط سياحي من دون وجود شبكة قوية من الفنادق والمنتجعات والقرى السياحية والمطاعم..إلخ

• تتدرج الفنادق في درجاتها على حسب توفر درجة الرفاهية ومستوى الخدمات من النزل العادي إلى فنادق الخمس نجوم والسبع نجوم.

• تشتمل الفنادق على المسابح والنوادي الصحية والملاعب والمطاعم ومراكز التسوق والبازارات ومراكز المؤتمرات ورجال الأعمال وممحرر تأجير السيارات ..إلخ

• من أبرز أمثلة الفنادق الراقية في الشرق الأوسط هوفندق برج العرب في دبي ، حيث أنه الفندق المختار لكبار مشاهير وأثرياء العالم.

فنادق غير معتادة

Many hotels can be considered destinations in themselves, by dint of unusual features of the lodging or its immediate environment:

فندق فوق الشجرة

Some hotels are built with living trees as structural elements, for example the Costa Rica Tree House in the Gandoca-Manzanillo Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica; the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya; the Ariau Towers near Manaus, البرازيل, on the Rio Negro in the Amazon; and Bayram's Tree Houses in Olympos, هجريا.

فنادق الكهوف

Desert Cave Hotel in Coober Pedy, South Australia and the Cuevas Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (named after the author) in Guadix, Spain, as well as several hotels in Cappadocia, Turkey, are notable for being built into natural cave formations, some with rooms underground.

فنادق الكبسولة

Capsule hotels are a type of economical hotel that are found in Japan, where people sleep in stacks of rectangular containers.

فنادق الثلج والجليد

The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, and the Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, Canada, melt every spring and are rebuilt each winter; the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the Kemi snow castle; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near Ylläs, Finland.

فنادق الحدائق

Garden hotels, famous for their gardens before they became hotels, include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer William Robinson, and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey Jellicoe.

فنادق تحت الماء

Some hotels have accommodation underwater, such as Utter Inn in بحيرة ملارن، السويد. هيدروپوليس, project cancelled 2004 in Dubai, will have suites on the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, فلوريدا requires scuba diving to access its rooms.

فنادق غير معتادة أخرى

• الفندق المخطة في مدينة نيويورك، is unique in that each of its ten floors is assigned one category from the Dewey Decimal System.
• فندق برج العرب في دبي, الإمارات العربية المتحدة, built on an artificial island, is structured in the shape of a boat's sail.
• The former ocean liner in Long Beach, California, United States uses its first-class staterooms as a hotel.
• The Jailhotel Löwengraben in Lucerne, Switzerland is a converted prison now used as a hotel.
• The Luxor, a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States due to its pyramidal structure.
• فندق الحرية في بوسطن، كان سابقاً سجن شارع تشارلز.

فنادق المنتجعات

Some hotels are built specifically to create a captive trade, example at casinos and holiday resorts. Though of course hotels have always been built in popular desinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

In Las Vegas there is a tradition of one-upmanship with luxurious and extravagant hotels in a concentrated area known as the Las Vegas Strip. This trend now has extended to other resorts worldwide, but the concentration in Las Vegas is still the world's highest: nineteen of the world's twenty-five largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over 67,000 rooms.

In Europe Center Parcs might be considered a chain of resort hotels, since the sites are largely man-made (though set in natural surroundings such as country parks) with captive trade, whereas holiday camps such as Butlins and Pontin's are probably not considered as resort hotels, since they are set at traditional holiday destinations which existed before the camps.

فنادق السكك الحديدية

Frequently, expanding railway companies built grand hotels at their termini, such as the Midland Hotel, Manchester next to the former Manchester Central Station and in London the ones above St Pancras railway station and Charing Cross railway station also in London is the Chiltern Court Hotel above Baker Street tube station and Canada's grand railway hotels. They are or were mostly, but not exclusively, used by those travelling by rail.

الموتيلات

A motel (Motor Hotel) is a hotel which is for a short stay, usually for a night, for motorists on long journeys. It has direct access from the room to the vehicle (for example a central parking lot around which the buildings are set), and is built conveniently close to major roads and intersections.

فنادق الأرقام القياسية العالمية

أكبرهم

In 2006, Guinness World Records listed the First World Hotel in Genting Highlands, Malaysia as the world's largest hotel with a total of 6,118 rooms.

أقدمهم

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest hotel still in operation is the Hoshi Ryokan, in the Awazu Onsen area of Komatsu, Japan which opened in 717.

أعلاهم

Burj Al Arab in United Arab Emirates is the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel. However, the Rose Tower, also in Dubai, which has already topped Burj Al Arab's height at 333 م (1,093 قدم), will take away this title upon its opening.

غرف الفندق كاستثمار

Some hotels sell individual rooms to investors. The buyer is allowed to stay in the room without charge or at a reduced rate for a given number of days each year. The investor is paid a share of the takings for the room. Rooms can be sold on a leasehold basis, sometimes on a 999 year lease. Room owners are free to sell at any time.

فنادق السكنى

A number of public figures have notably chosen to take up semi-permanent or permanent residence in hotels.

• Actor Richard Harris lived at the Savoy Hotel while in London. Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death he raised his hand and told the diners "it was the food".

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• Lundberg, Donald E., The Hotel and Restaurant Business, Boston : Cahners Books, 1974. ISBN 0843620447