Why does the travel industry call a room with two beds a standard room?

I realized that there are quite a lot of people asking this question, so I'll reply by the way. The expression of calling a hotel room with two beds a standard room is actually wrong. Why so named can not be proved, but personally feel that this statement is in fact the most recent years of the emergence of the hotel industry more than 20 years ago when the industry just began to appear in the country, along with the traditional way of calling the room classification, is directly translated from the English, such as standardroom both standard room. That period has done the front desk (FO) or guest rooms (HSKP) staff know that the system used at that time is nothing more than Fidelio (DOS version) and HIS, are the English system, the naming of the guest rooms, basically along the lines of the following ideas. STK (standardking/queen standard king room) STT (standardtwin standard twin room) DLK (deluxe deluxe large) DLT (deluxe deluxe double) S (suite suite) EDK (executive executive floor king bed) EDT (executive double bed) basically learned in a hotel, to other places are the same or similar. There are also special designations such as studio (equivalent to deluxe), but the differences are minor. The standard room mentioned by the subject is actually a room type after the hotel distinguishes the rooms according to different grades (selling price), and the standard room is the lowest grade of the guest room. Probably a standard is: standard room & lt; deluxe room & lt; executive floor standard room & lt; executive floor deluxe room & lt; executive suite & lt; presidential suite and others. In addition to the suite is equipped with a king-size bed, other rooms will have a king-size bed, twin bed difference. Some resorts will distinguish room types according to the landscape, for example, the room with a view of the sea and the back, are two types of rooms of different grades. As for why there are many people who call the twin room a standard room, I will tell a little story from personal experience. A few years ago, I just came out of a foreign-funded hotel, and I still have the same kind of high attitude of foreign-funded hotels, which is called "jin jin's" in Beijing. Then I asked SM, FO and FC to operate in accordance with the so-called hotel standards that I understood, and I started to train the staff and adjusted the room types of the reservation center in accordance with the standards. After running it for a while, I found difficulties, and then I saw this scene at the front desk. "Little sister, is there a room, I live Xu," "Sir, do you have a reservation? ," "I don't know, just open a standard room," "If you don't have a reservation, we still have a business room today, after the discount is 8XX, are you one person to live or two?" "Two people, I don't want a business room, I want a standard room," "The standard room is not available today, only the business room, we can arrange a room with a double bed for you," "I'm two people, how can I live in a king-size bed?" "The room is available in a king-size bed. "There are two single beds in the room." "Oh, that's not still a standard room, can you get a discount?" "8XX is the price after the discount, can not be lower" .............................. Then the guest didn't stay because of the price. I don't mean to discriminate against anyone, I can't remember some of the original words in the details, but it's true. This small case just answered the question. The development of the domestic hotel industry according to personal understanding of the broadly experienced so many stages, the initial hotel just foreign; later three public consumption led to a number of domestic high-star hotels in the market; the third stage, probably from 06 years, the domestic fast brand appeared on a large scale, the first two phases of the hotel to go to the positioning of the high and mighty, from the general public is very far away. I personally resent fast hotels, but fast really cultivate a part of the cheap market. A large number of fast hotels, all kinds of small hotels, guest houses, the level of uneven, confusing positioning of the product, misleading a lot of consumers, which may be the main reason for the problem. Formal hotel business philosophy, is to rely on different grades of rooms, providing different services (such as executive floors), room size differential pricing. But some people have to break adult head according to the youth hostel method, the king and twin beds price quoted separately. This hotel product is usually very single, at most only two to three types of rooms (most of the windowless rooms, a small number of ordinary rooms with windows), a lot of fast with the abandoned factories, shopping malls, bad buildings transformed into a rather poor conditions, and even water can not be guaranteed. In order to improve profits, can only be divided out of the two different types of rooms, do the difference in price. A large number of fast and cheap hotels flooded the market, really can not point to them to establish standards. In short, you go to book a room, look at the choice of hotel, if it is a high-star or regular hotel, then, with the standard I said above to book a room, if that kind of cheap fast car store then be careful, said standard room, big bed room may be someone will understand. If you are afraid of being tricked, booking time to emphasize the need for the room is two single beds or a queen-size bed can be. Show all