What is the guest house?

Used to receive relatives, family members, guests, friends, VIPs and bosses and businessmen with business contacts of the unit and employees.

Guesthouses are generally open and open to the public. The guest house contains desks, such-and-such offices, such-and-such guest houses, employees for unit members to meet, beds, tea rooms, restaurants, conference rooms, bathrooms, reception rooms, etc.

Hostels (Hostels), many public and private organizations often set up guest houses in major locations to accommodate their large organizational personnel on business trips. Their scale and management form are the same as hotels, but their accommodation qualifications are different. There are restrictions and non-general passengers can use it.

On December 1, 2017, the "English Translation and Writing Standards in the Public Service Field" was officially implemented, stipulating that the standard English name of guesthouses is Guesthouse.

Extended information

In China, guesthouses are service places that provide short-term accommodation and meals during the planned economy era. This kind of service place is different from hotels and is not entirely for profit. Partly relying on financial subsidies from the sponsor, it is mainly used to give priority to meeting the temporary accommodation needs of personnel from business units within the institutional organization system.

With the relaxation of policies and the development of the commodity economy, some for-profit hotel (inn) service units mainly provide accommodation services to the public under the name of "guest house". After 1978, with the reform and opening up and the development of market economy, all "guest houses" were transformed into hotels to provide services to the public.

Only a very small number of hotels that provide services to government organizations still receive financial subsidies from the government. After entering the 1990s, service units named "guest house" became increasingly rare, or the same service unit was named "guest house" and "hotel" at the same time.