Meaning & use
hotelier
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Meaning
nouncountable
A person who owns or runs one or more hotels as a business.
Grammar: Refers to the owner or manager, not to a front-desk worker: a hotelier runs the whole hotel.
Patterns
- a hotelier from somewhere
- a leading hotelier
The hotelier greeted each guest at the door.
A local hotelier bought the old mansion and turned it into a boutique hotel.
Several hoteliers complained about the new tourist tax.
Word forms
| plural | hoteliers |
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Common combinations
- leading hotelier
- She is a leading hotelier in the Swiss Alps.
- local hotelier
- A local hotelier sponsored the town festival.
- luxury hotelier
- The luxury hotelier opened three new resorts this year.
- independent hotelier
- Independent hoteliers struggled when bookings dropped.
- hotelier and restaurateur
- He worked as a hotelier and restaurateur for forty years.
Synonyms and how they differ
- hotel manager
- Hotel manager names a job done for an employer, while a hotelier is often the owner or the head of a hotel business.
- innkeeper
- Innkeeper is older and suggests a small inn or pub with rooms, not a modern hotel business.
- proprietor
- Proprietor is broader and can be the owner of any business, not only a hotel.
Word family
- hotel noun
- a building offering rooms and meals to paying guests
- hotelkeeper noun
- a person who keeps a hotel
- hospitality noun
- the business of looking after guests
Commonly confused: hotelier or restaurateur?
hotelier vs restaurateur
A restaurateur owns or runs restaurants, while a hotelier owns or runs hotels.
Practice
Maria inherited three seaside hotels and now works as a ___.
Choose one answer.
A hotelier owns or runs hotels, which matches her situation. A receptionist works at a front desk and a restaurateur runs restaurants.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “hotelier”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.