Hotel Classification & Names

Most of the largest hotels in the world are in Las Vegas in the USA . The many casinos do not attract very many tourists in, but also help keep the room in the casino's, hotels across financed low.

Large hotels are not only due to the demand , created more expensive land prices or profitability.Often there is also a competition for prestige and size, which involves not only the casino operator in Las Vegas. Earlier were repeated in communist countries built huge hotels. An example is the 330-meter high giant Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang in North Korea , which was completed probably due to faulty design or for financial reasons before. Today it is the Southeast Asian tiger economies , try again and again, the Americans with huge hotel complexes to trump.

Size does not always promise but economic success. For example, in financial ruin became theHotel Kursaal in small Engadine village of Maloja , at the opening on the first July 1884 with 250 rooms, the largest and most modern hotel in the Alps was. Even in the opening had thebankruptcy be logged in neighboring Italy after the cholera had broken out.

End of 2005, the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow , with 3,200 rooms, then the largest hotel in Europe , its business one: Instead of the huge hotel, which was struggling with a bad reputation, is a complex of different types of use are erected. Now, the Rin Grand Hotel in Bucharest with a total of 1459 rooms that title.

Connected in contrast to the past, as the size, most likely, with luxury and was Grand Hotelswere the biggest houses, today the big hotels usually speak to a mass audience. Often there areresorts that consist of several buildings and often, rooms in different price ranges. In part, any part of these resorts can be considered as a separate hotel.

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As probably the highest ruin long was the unfinished Ryugyong Hot'el in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang : The construction of the mid-1990s, were set to 2009. In the 330 meter high building around 3,000 rooms were planned.
Europe's tallest building with hotel currently being built in Moscow: A large part of the two up to 354 m tall main towers of the Federazija are reserved for a luxury hotel. As the largest hotel in Western Europe at present, the 186-meter Gran Hotel Bali with 52 floors in Benidorm on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, it is being surpassed in Europe only by the Hotel Ukraine in the Russian capital Moscow . The 1955 building was completed and then the highest hotel in the world, despite a height of 198 meters, only 34 storeys - the spire is 75 meters high.

Hotel classification in Germany

The hotel classification in Germany is voluntary (as a charge for the hotel), is on a scale of one to five star hotel and is valid for three years awarded.

Since the first January 2010 subject to the uniform hotel classification system Hotelstars Union for Germany. Other European countries and organizations involved in the system.