1. Classification of facilities of placing of tourists. Modern national systems of classifications

Hospitality service – one of the importante part of tourists business. Function of hotels:

Facilities of placing of tourists are any objects which give tourists a temporal or regular place for spending the night (usually in an apartment).

Accordingly all facilities of placing can be presented two categories – community facilities of placing:

– individual facilities of placing. (DSTU)

In Ukraine as well as in majority of the world in the last years the developed classification of hotels on the level of comfort.

The level of comfort of hotels is determined them technical rigging, composition and quality of containing a number fund, by the set of services and others like that.

Today about 30 different national systems of classifications of hotels operate in the world (system of stars (*) from 1 to 5; system of letters – And, In, С; system «crowns», or «keys», «diamonds» and others like that, which can be united in two basic groups: European type the French national system and Asiatic type (ball) is fixed in basis of which, basis of which is the Indian national system. In україні classification operates by system of stars. Hotels and analogical facilities of placing are divided into 5 categories (stars).

A category of «one*» is a low category for hotels.

A category of «five*» is a high category for hotels.

The State national standards, in which minimum requirements are certain in relation to rigging, qualification of personnel and grant of services, are developed in Ukraine. (for example).

Depending on the functional setting of hotels Ukraine divided into a few types:

– general type;

– tourist;

– resort;

– for sportsmen;

– for transients;

– for conferences (hotels of congress)

So far in Ukraine most widespread are hotels of general type, which are counted on people which arrive with business aims on relatively short space, and also for citizens which travel with the personal aims. Such hotels as a rule are in central part of city, near-by administrative, shopping centers. The containing a number fund of hotels of general type consists mainly of one -, two and partly three – four numbers depending on a category,

for example:…….

Tourist hotels are intended for tourists. Depending on the type of active rest they are also differentiated:

-  for motor-car tourists

-  for water tourism

-  for mountain tourism

-  for youth tourism and others like that.

The feature of tourist hotels consists in that in them present apartments of tourist service, and also methodical and instructor (for methodical work of instructors with groups) cabinets.

One of many types of tourist hotels are hotels for motor-car tourists. Except for buildings with housings numbers, restaurant and other apartments of the public use, these hotels are given by possibility of parking and technical maintenance of motor transport (fillings stations), repair shops or technical service stations.

Hotels for motor-car tourists are also divided into a few types:

Motels are disposed on motorways, before an entrance in cities and also in those places which bring over to itself tourists. Motels, as a rule, small – 20–30 numbers. They provide comprehensive maintenance of guests, and also stand, prophylaxis and repair of cars. (classification from * to to ****)

(example)….

Camping (from engl. of «camp» is a camp) – shows by itself the enterprise of hotel type for seasonal exploitation and it is intended for rest of motor-car tourists and parking them vehicles. All of types of service are simplified: berths placing in buildings of summer type, often in wooden without heating tents; sanitary knots in majorities general, sometimes there are the fillings stations and workshops of repair of cars at campsites. Campsites are accessible for the wide circle of tourists. They provide good and comparatively cheap rest.

The variety of camping is Rotel. He is intended for travelling on cars with treyler. Treyler is set in the specially taken place, connected to technical communications. Rotelі dispose on approaches to the cities or in picturesque places.

Hotel complexes are for water tourism. Placing of establishments of placing for water tourism conditioned dividing of tourist route into areas: initial, transit and eventual.

For the hotel complexes of water tourism characteristic combination of functions, which provide terms for spending the night, rest of tourists, and also for a stand, technical service and storage of floating facilities.

Distinguish the followings hotel complexes of water tourism:

Botels are establishments which are located on a birch in the initial or eventual areas of route through a 150–200 km These establishments consist of housings corps of hotel type with the system of cultural and welfare service and mean of technical maintenance of плавзасобів. Areas of Botel must be equipped harbour. Botels function during a year.

Botokemping – show by itself summer seasonal townships, intended for maintenance of tourists of water tourism in a hike. They have stationary buildings of technical maintenance of floating facilities and disposed enroute through a 70–100 km

Flotel is a floating motel, which serves tourists which travel by water. He consists of floating corps of the different setting and takes place enroute through a 50 km In winter флотель use as a hotel within the limits of city.

For example……

Hotels are for mountain tourism. ............