Tourist accommodations

thumb|Hotel Palazzo in Livorno, Italy A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a refrigerator, and other kitchen facilities, upholstered chairs, a television, and en-suite bathrooms. Small, lower-priced hotels may offer only the most basic guest services and facilities. Larger, higher-priced hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, a business center with computers, printe

thumb|right|300px|The Villa Medici in Fiesole with early terraced hillside [[landscape by Leon Battista Alberti]] thumb|The Tamminiemi|Villa Tamminiemi, an [[Art Nouveau styled villa and house museum in Helsinki, Finland]]

thumb|Hostel dormitory room in Taiwan thumb|A house that has been converted into a hostel in Paihia, [[New Zealand]] thumb|Outdoor pool and shared space at a hostel in Pai, Thailand|Pai, [[Thailand]] A hostel is a form of low-cost, short-term shared sociable lodging where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed in a dormitory sleeping 4–20 people, with shared use of a lounge and usually a kitchen. Rooms can be private or shared - mixed or single-sex - and have private or shared bathrooms. Food and beverage, laundry services, luggage storage, and lockers may also be available.

thumb|right|A motel in Bjerka, Norway

thumb|A houseboat on Lake Union in [[Seattle, Washington, US|alt=A houseboat on Lake Union in Seatlle, Washington, US]] thumb|Houseboat Cornelia in Ystad, Sweden, 2018

right|240px|thumb|Hotel Carlton in Bratislava, [[Slovakia.]] thumb|240px|A campsite at Hunting Island State Park in [[South Carolina]] thumb|220px|Dorm room from a hostel in Budapest, [[Hungary]] Lodging refers to the use of a short-term dwelling, usually by renting the living space or sometimes through some other arrangement. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging for sleep, rest, food, safety, shelter from cold temperatures or rain, storage of luggage and access to common household functions. Lodging can be a form of the sharing economy.

Homestay (also home stay and home-stay) is a form of hospitality and lodging whereby visitors share a residence with a local of the area (host) to which they are traveling. The length of stay can vary from one night to over a year and can be provided for free (gift economy), in exchange for monetary compensation, in exchange for a stay at the guest's property either simultaneously or at another time (home exchange), or in exchange for housekeeping or work on the host's property (barter economy). Homestays are examples of collaborative consumption and the sharing economy. Homestays are used by

Form of lodging

furnished apartment for short-term stays

property rented for holidays

small building used for shelter on beaches

simple shelter or hut for temporary accommodation outside built-up areas

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historical inn serving coach travellers

commercial establishment typically built on or near a major road

type of tourist accommodation