Department Of Tourism Hotel Classification, Hotels are an important component of the tourism product. They contribute to the overall tourism experience through the standards of facilities and services offered by them. With the aim of providing contemporary standards of facilities and services available in the hotels, the Ministry of Tourism has formulated a voluntary scheme for classification of operational hotels which will be applicable to the following categories: Star Category Hotels: 5 Star Deluxe, 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star & 1 Star Heritage Category Hotels: Heritage Grand, Heritage Classic & Heritage Basic
CLASSIFICATION OF HOTELS
A) Classification on the basis of Size.
1) Small hotel : Hotels with 25 rooms or less are classified as small hotels.E.g Hotel Alka,New Delhi and the oberoi Vanyavilas ,Ranthambore.
2) Medium Hotel: Hotel with twenty six to 100 rooms are calledmedium hotels,E.g Hotel Taj view ,Agra and chola sheraton Hotel, Chennai.
3) Large Hotels: Hotels with 101-300 guest rooms are regarded as large hotels E.g. the Imperial, New Delhi, The Park, and Kolkata
4) Very Large Hotels: Hotels more than 300 guest room are known as very large hotels E.g. Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi and Leela Kempinski Mumbai.