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The Origin and Basic Contents of Hotel

The earliest hotel facilities can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty or even earlier. Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties are the period of great development of hotel industry. Modern hotels in China were mainly built in the last twenty or thirty years. Some of them are old hotels after transformation, some are guest houses, hotels and restaurants built after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and some are modern hotels newly built in recent years. These three types of facilities have become the main reception forces of tourist hotels in China. (1) China Ancient Hotel: ① Ancient government-run accommodation facilities, mainly including post stations and guest houses. The post system began in Shang Dynasty and ended in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, which was handed down from generation to generation. Therefore, the post office is the oldest hotel facility in the history of China. The name of the hotel was first seen in the late Qing Dynasty. Before that, it was called "Siyi Pavilion" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ② Ancient folk hotels can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, when they were called "anti-tourism" and were places for tourists to stay and eat. Its emergence and development are closely related to the rise and fall of commercial activities and traffic conditions. (2) Modern hotels in China: ① Western-style hotels are the general name of restaurants built and operated after foreign capital invaded China in the early 9th century. (2) Chinese and Western-style hotels are a large number of "half-Chinese and half-Western" style new hotels built one after another after the appearance of Western-style hotels. Such hotels are often called "hotels", "hotels" and "hotels". (3) China Modern Hotel: With the development of tourism, a number of large and medium-sized hotels have been built in recent years. From the perspective of investment, these hotels can be roughly divided into ① hotels invested by the state; ② Various fund-raising hotels; ③ Sino-foreign joint venture hotels.