School-stay as Seasonal Accomodation for Particular Travelers

Abstract

Abstract Accommodation is the single most essential part of any stay in a destination. Accordingly, accommodation is available everywhere and forms the foundation of tourism industry. Regarding to their travelling patterns and trip characteristics, travelers choose luxury hotel with variety of services to budget hotels with limited facilities. During two main school holidays in Iran, New Year and summer, lots of families travel to different part of the country. Schools can be considered as one of the accommodations options for particular travellers. Due to the lenghth of those holidays and since during school holiday, schools are not occupied with students; they can be available for groups of domestic travellers to stay overnight. The reason behind uniqueness of this type of accommodation is long school holiday in Iran which let the education department use the school buildings for travelers’ accommodation. There is no such a thing as school for accommodation in literature at present. This paper is going to find the condition of this unique kind of accommodation as well as available service provided for travelers. Qualitative analysis was done by interviewing a service provider to find the available services as well as the improvement of this particular type of accomodation, school stay, during last years.