The difference between a hotel and an apartment

Apartment is a kind of collective housing, which is called unit building or residential building in Chinese mainland and unit building in Hong Kong and Macao. Refers to the living form with complete living facilities, but it only accounts for a part of the building. The apartment may be purchased by the owner himself or rented by the owner.

A hotel (restaurant) is a kind of building or place that prepares accommodation, food and services for the public. "In general, it is a place for guests to stay and eat. Specifically, it is an organization that provides services to guests and obtains economic benefits by selling rooms, restaurants and comprehensive service facilities based on its buildings.

But now the term "apartment hotel" appears, which is to let apartments enter the hotel management mode or integrate hotel management into the apartment sales mode. To understand these comprehensively, it is already a problem of economic model, not a problem of noun hierarchy.