Hospitality industry

The hospitality industry is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service, event planning, theme parks, and transportation. It includes hotels, restaurants and bars.

Sectors

According to the Cambridge Business English Dictionary the "hospitality industry" consists of hotels and food service,[1] equivalent to NAICS code 72, "Accommodation and Food Service".

Definition in the United States

The United States Department of Labor Standard Industry Classification (SIC) defines the hospitality industry more broadly, including:[2]

• 701 Hotels and Motels, including auto courts, bed and breakfast inns, cabins and cottages, casino hotels, hostels, hotels (except residential ones), inns furnishing food and lodging, motels, recreational hotels, resort hotels, seasonal hotels, ski lodges and resorts, tourist cabins and tourist courts
• 703 Camps and Recreational Vehicle (RV) Parks
• 704 Organization Hotels and Lodging Houses, On a Membership Basis
• 58 Eating and Drinking Places (cf. U.S. "food service industry", U.K. "catering industry")
  • 5812 Eating Places, including restaurants (among which carry-out restaurants, drive-in restaurants and fast food restaurants), automats, beaneries, box lunch stands, buffets, cafés, cafeterias, caterers, coffee shops, commissary restaurants a.k.a canteens, concession stands, prepared food (e.g., in airports and sports arenas), contract feeding, dairy bars, diners, dining rooms, dinner theaters, food bars, frozen custard stands, grills, hamburger stands, hot dog stands, ice cream stands, industrial feeding, institutional food service such as that aboard airplanes, railroads, and ships), lunch bars, lunch counters, luncheonettes, lunchrooms, oyster bars, pizza parlors and pizzerias, refreshment stands, sandwich bars or shops, snack shops, soda fountains, soft drink stands, submarine sandwich shops, and tearooms. Sources other than the SIC also mention other formats of eating places such as cyber cafés, ramen shops a.k.a. noodle bars, and sushi bars.[3]
  • 5813 Drinking Places (alcoholic beverages) including bars, beer gardens/parlors/taverns, sale of beer, wine, and liquors for on-premise consumption, bottle clubs, cabarets, cocktail lounges, discotheques, drinking places, nightclubs, saloons, taprooms, taverns, and wine bars
• 472 Arrangement of Passenger Transportation
  • 4724 Travel Agencies
  • 4725 Tour Operators
  • 4729 Arrangement of Passenger Transportation, Not Elsewhere Classified, such as ticket offices not operated by transportation companies, and services that arrangecarpools

Definition in the Netherlands

Horeca (also HoReCa, HORECA) is the Dutch-language term for the food service and hotel industries. The term is a syllabic abbreviation of the words Hotel/Restaurant/Café.[4][5] The term is mostly used in Dutch.

"Horeca" is often not a one-to-one equivalent to the term "hospitality industry" used in English, which is often used more broadly. According to the Cambridge Business English Dictionary the "hospitality industry" consists of hotels and food service,[6] equivalent to NAICS code 72, "Accommodation and Food Service". However, the United States Department of Labor Standard Industry Classification (SIC) defines the hospitality industry more broadly, as noted above.

The Dutch Uniforme Voorwaarden Horeca (UVH) is translated into English as Uniform Conditions for the Hotel and Catering Industry. This code covers hotels, bars, restaurants and related businesses in the Netherlands. Koninklijke Horeca Nederland is the Dutch trade association for the hotel and catering industry.[7]

This sector is one of the fastest growing in Europe. In 2004, more than 7.8 million people were employed[8] and the sector generated more than $338 billion turnover.[9] Jobs tend to be temporary, with irregular hours, low pay, and few career prospects. There is a high proportion of young people working in the sector. Some distribution companies use this term to define the food & beverage service trade channel or the hospitality trade channel.

See also

• Destination marketing organization
• Hospitality
• Hotel manager
• Leisure industry
• American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute
• Prix Versailles
• Gastronomy

References

1. ""Hospitality industry"". Cambridge Business English Dictionary. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
2. "Global Hospitality Leadership: Industry & Company Information". Georgetown University Library. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
3. Andrews (2007). Introduction To Tourism And Hospitality Industry. McGraw-Hill Education (India). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
4. "Abbreviations and Acronyms". Eurostat. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
5. "Wat valt onder horeca? ("What is included in 'horeca'?")". CBS (Central Bureau for Statistics of The Netherlands) (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 March 2020.
6. ""Hospitality industry"". Cambridge Business English Dictionary. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
7. Uniform Conditions for the Hotel and Catering Industry - Koninklijk Horeca Nederland
8. Eurostat, 2005
9. Hospitality industry course