| If you are a businessman who needs to travel on | | | | pilgrimage, you also know the kind of people who |
| business for practically half the year, you would | | | | would be coming on your tours. They would probably |
| certainly want to compare the comforts that various | | | | prefer a hotel that was fairly close to the place of |
| hotels have on offer. Whether these hotels are budget | | | | worship, they are supposed to go to. |
| hotels or luxury ones, the basic features that | | | | On the other hand, if you were taking a group of |
| characterize a good hotel are common. Before you | | | | young school children, it would be better for you to put |
| start comparing various hotels, let's think of the various | | | | them up in a hotel which was a little cheaper, but yet |
| points of comparison. You would probably think of all | | | | situated in close proximity to the places of interest that |
| or any of the following:o Room serviceo Cleanlinesso | | | | you would be taking them to. It would not be advisable |
| Proximity to airports and stationso The location of the | | | | for these young children to travel great distances to |
| hotelo The additional amenities that are offeredo The | | | | see the sights of a particular town or city. |
| price you need to pay | | | | Another section of people for whom comparisons of |
| It is certainly not easy to say that one hotel is better | | | | hotels have to be done, is the lower or middle income |
| than another, till you have actually stayed there. Very | | | | group. Here, the primary concern is the amount they |
| often you end up staying in a hotel, because one of | | | | have to shell out for a room per day. If the amount is |
| your colleagues has gone there before you. Another | | | | too high, they will certainly think twice about staying in |
| reason may be because you have been impressed by | | | | that particular hotel. Apart from this, they would also be |
| the brochure or advertisement of the hotel. Even with | | | | keen to get the most out of what they spend. Value |
| these impressions, you may have a totally different | | | | for money would be their focus. |
| experience, once you reach there. | | | | After weighing all the pros and cons, one realizes that |
| Comparing hotels will take on a whole new significance | | | | the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. You really do |
| if you are a tour operator. If you had to regularly take | | | | not know what a hotel is like, until you have stayed |
| groups of people (students, housewives, families) on | | | | there for a considerable length of time. There is |
| conducted tours to various places, you would have to | | | | absolutely no harm in checking out the amenities, the |
| start comparing the facilities offered by three or four | | | | add-ons and the tariff, before you come to any sort of |
| hotels. This of course, depends on the place that you | | | | conclusion. |
| are taking these people to. If you are going on a | | | | |