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What's the difference between hotels, hotels and restaurants?

The difference between a hotel and a guesthouse is very small, which can basically be considered as the same. . 1, according to the dictionary definition: hotel: the place where guests stay. Now it refers to a well-equipped hotel. Hotel: 1) pub (a shop selling wine and snacks, also called pub); 2) Hotels with larger scale and better equipment (mostly used as names). It can be seen that it is difficult to distinguish. 2. According to traditional customs, most people in the north call hotels with accommodation function and hotels with catering function (of course, only most, not all), but the difference in the south is not so obvious. 3. According to the differences between China and foreign countries, foreign hotels and restaurants are collectively called hotels (the larger ones provide catering, accommodation and entertainment), and the smaller ones are called restaurants (only catering, mostly fast food). When translated into China, hotels were mostly translated into "hotels" before liberation (as they were called in the collected works of Lu Xun and Yu Dafu). ). Later, after the reform and opening up, most of them were translated into hotels and guesthouses, and some of them were translated into "hotels" in the late 1990s. Therefore, hotels and guesthouses are loanwords, just different translations of the word hotel. As for the name of your hotel, I don't know where it is. If it is in the north of Beijing, it can be named "Jingbei Hotel". At that time, the word "North of Beijing" will be erected on the door, and it will be "Beijing" according to the ancient (or ancient) pronunciation, hehe. Typing is not easy. If you are satisfied, please adopt it.