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OVERVIEW OF THE LODGING INDUSTRY
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home owner of earlier times who provided food and a night’s rest to travelers
before they continued on their journey.
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Other accommodations. Other types of businesses provide sleeping accommoda-
tions for travelers: youth hostels, campgrounds, working ranches, wilderness
lodges and ranches. There are two relatively new types of hotels. Condotels are
hotels with several floors dedicated to condominium units; condo owners in
these properties typically have access to the hotel’s amenities. In a stretch of the
definition of hotels, entrepreneurs now offer “daytime sleeping salons”—dimly
lighted rooms with a white-noise machine and sleeping “pods”(dome-covered
chairs featuring nature sounds and headphones). Nap sessions are sold in
15-minute increments.