hotel

business enterprise that provides indoor lodging in a single location paid on a short-term basis
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Summary

hotel ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,473 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: lodging[2], enterprise[3], commercial building[4]
  • Part of: hospitality industry[5], hotel industry[6], horeca[7]
  • Has use: staying overnight[8]
  • Commons category: Hotels[9]
  • SRGB color hex triplet: 8B4513[10]
  • Unicode character: 🏨[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hotels[12]
  • Commons gallery: Hotel[13]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: tourism=hotel[14]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[18], Kartographer icon[19]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox hotel[20], Template:Hotel-stub[21], Template:Hotel[22], Q26191198[23]
  • Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Hotel[24], https://schema.org/Hotel[25], http://purl.org/acco/ns#Hotel[26]
  • Different from: Hôtel[27], rural tourism[28], agritourism[29], hotel building[30]
  • Properties for this type: P3607[31], P3134[32], P3898[33], P5651[34], P5734[35], P5735[36], P5774[37], P5834[38], P5890[39], P6008[40], P10487[41], P10425[42], P10290[43]
  • History of topic: history of hotels[44]
  • Uses: hotel building[45]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[46]

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Influence

Things named for hotel include horeca[47], an abbreviation[48].

Why It Matters

hotel has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] hotel is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

Entities named for hotel include horeca[47], an abbreviation[48].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · GeertivpBot bot · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 134
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ast', 'av', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'bcl', 'be', 'b
    Subclass of → lodging, enterprise, commercial building
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||eu, ba, el, ne, oc, scn, si */ #pwb Copy label"
  2. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → John Hamilton
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  3. 7w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19384
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C19384, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  4. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → viesbutis
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||hu, tr, it, scn, nb, eu, mul */ Cleanup: remove wikimedia+self_stated_in refs; add mul alias ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  5. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hotels
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: hotels, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289933221|hotels (#289933221)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  6. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005488-hotely
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005488-hotely, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  7. 22w ago · Sofie Geneea · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Iab code → 446, 668
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Iab code: 668"
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