Hotel, includes a refreshment room, a boarding house, a lodging house, a coffee house, a lodging house, a coffee house and a caf'. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (aa)]
A hotel in common parlance means a place where a proprietor makes it his business to furnish food or lodging or both to travellers or other persons. A building cannot be run as a hotel unless services necessary for the comfortable stay of lodgers and boarders are maintained. Services so maintained vary with the standard of the hotel and the class of persons to which it caters; but the amenities must have relation to the hotel business. Associated Hotels of India Ltd. v. R.N. Kapoor, AIR 1959 SC 1262 (1270): (1960) 1 SCR 386. [Delhi and Ajmer Marwara Rent Control Act (19 of 1947), s. 2(b)]