Criteria:
- Location: e.g. city centre hotels, suburban hotels, airport hotels and highway hotels/motels
- Function: e.g. commercial hotels and convention hotels
- Market segment: e.g. resorts, health spas, timeshares/vacation ownership and casino hotels
- Distinctiveness of property: e.g. all-suite hotels, boutique hotels, extended-stay hotels, historic conversions and bed and breakfast inns
- Price and staff/room ratio
- Size: e.g. under 150 rooms, 151-300 rooms, 301-600 rooms, more than 600 rooms
- Rating (grading) : e.g. one-star to five-star or one-diamond to five-diamond
Hotel Ownership
Another classification of hotels is by their ownership, which can be:
- Private: An independent hotel owned by a person/partnership/private company;
- Local group: Several hotels owned by a local company
- International group: A hotel which is part of an international chain of hotels