. Види житла, що пропонує індустрія гостинності (Інформація)
· accommodations – 1. Loading, food, drink and other services for travelers or transients. 2) a seat or place to sleep. esp. on a board or train;
· Inn – an establishment offering shelter and food for travelers. 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 parking place for his or her automobile.
· Resort – a place or area to which people travel for recreational purposes. Hotels are important features of resort areas.
· Conventions – a meeting of a business or professional group for the purpose of exchanging information, electing officers and discussing.
· Deluxe – of a highest quality. Hotels rated as deluxe offer the services possible convenience, comfort and service to their guests. Such hotels are often called luxury hotels and are generally the most expensive.
· 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 center 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, theatre and exhibition facilities.
· Airport hotel – provides accommodations 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.
· Motel – is built especially to provide a service to motorists.
· 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”
1) How many hotel classes are there?
2) What way can you describe a five-star hotel?
3) What do four-star hotels offer?
4) What do you know about the work of a three-star hotel?
5) What services and facilities do two-star hotels offer?
6) What do you know about one-star hotel?
7) What services for people who are not staying in the hotel does a hotel offer?
8) What do you know about countryhouse hotels?
9) What do you know about resort hotels?
+ Самост. 9-5cем Вправа 1.1 Read and translate the following hotel facilities:
- wheelchair access
- health or fitness facilities
- credit cards accepted
- rooms for more than 2 people
- pets welcome
- air conditioning
- swimming pool
- 24-hour room service
- business facilities
- children’s facilities
What facilities would you expect a very expensive hotel to provide for its guests? Make a list of your ideas.
Вправа 1.3 Read and translate the following short dialogues:
1.
| A: | Hello, reception. |
| B: | Oh, hello, this is Mrs Wallstein here from room 202. Is it possible to get my hair done tomorrow before, say, eight-thirty? |
| A: | I’m sorry madam, but the hair salon doesn’t open until 9 a.m. |
| 2. | |
| A: | Reception. |
| B: | Hello. I’m afraid I’ve missed dinner. Is it possible to have some sandwiches sent up to my room? |
| A: | Certainly. What kind of sandwich? |
| B: | What have you got? |
| 3. | |
| A: | Hello. Room 157, please. |
| B: | Here’s your key. |
| A: | Thanks. Oh, I’ve left my car just round the corner. It’s a blue BMW with German registration plates. |
| B: | OK. I’ll get someone to park it for you in your reserved space. |
| 4. | |
| A: | Hello. I’ve got a pair of pants that need dry-cleaning. Is it possible to have them done at the hotel? |
| B: | Certainly Sir, just give them to the chambermaid tomorrow morning before nine o’clock and we’ll have them ready for you in the evening. |
| A: | Great. |
| 5. | |
| A: | Good morning. |
| B: | Morning. I’ve a problem. I have a report that has been written in English and it has to be sent to Buenos Aires by Friday at the latest. |
| A: | No problem. You can email it from the business centre. |
| B: | Yeah, OK, but that’s not the problem. I need to get it translated into Spanish. Do you know of an agency where I could have it done? |
| A: | There’s no need. You can have it translated here. |
| B: | Oh, really. |
