Establishment providing accommodation, food and drink for reward mainly to travelers and temporary residents, usually also meals and refreshments to other users, and often other facilities and services. More specific meaning is sometimes attached to the term in particular countries for legislative or other purposes, thus, e.g., ‘an establishment held out by the proprietor as offering food, drink and, if so required, sleeping accommodation, without special contract, to any traveler presenting himself who appears able and willing to pay a reasonable sum for the services and facilities provided and who is in a fit state to be received’ (Great Britain: Hotel Proprietors Act 1956).