Hoteles Vacacionales

09:25 Jun 3, 2012 

" a place frequented for holidays or leisure activities". I don't think you can use just "resort" because "resort towns" exist too, as do "ski resorts". I assume that in the translation there is a list of the activities the hotel in question offers and if there are a few on it, I'd go with resort hotels.

18:18 Jun 2, 2012 

if I type the words in as single words I get similar results to yours, but if I type them in as word strings (between inverted commas) I get 3.98 million hits for "resort hotels" and 1.55 million for "holiday hotels".

17:49 Jun 2, 2012 

The owners of websites that are used to sell products/services usually want translations to be done taking into account the terms people type into their search engines, which personally I find can be a bit of a nuisance. "Resort hotels" gives 409,000,000 G-hits and "holiday hotels" gives 504,000,000.
I was just imagining a conversation and I don't think I've ever heard anyone saying, "We've booked our resort hotel".

17:03 Jun 2, 2012 

is that as far as I know the closest Spanish equivalent is "enclave vacacional" https://www.google.co.uk/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=15&sourcei...

so it would be logical to refer to a hotel in an "enclave vacacional" as an "hotel vacacional".

16:52 Jun 2, 2012 

Hi everyone. Thanks for your input it has been very helpful. So far I am leaning towards "resort" becuase in looking at the maps of where these hotels are and their facilities what I am seeing is along the lines of a resort. What's more most of them (those that are not located in cities) are seaside hotels. They are definetely not rural hotels or places where people go to "get away from it all."

16:48 Jun 2, 2012 

those multiple facilities are associated with "hoteles 4 y 5 estrellas" as in the context

16:45 Jun 2, 2012 

To me a resort is somewhere with multiple facilities such as a pool, golf course, tennis court, spa...

16:14 Jun 2, 2012 

rely mainly on business trade, like reps; their main business is on weekdays, so they often often have special weekend break offers to make up the slack. Then you have hotels which cater mainly to the Holiday (vacation) market, which often have a more seasonal activity cycle. I think the former corresponds more to what the source text calls "urban", but it's just my take on it.

13:49 Jun 2, 2012 

why not Google the hotel chain's name and try to locate a map showing the geographical distribution of its hotels? It might give you an idea of where they are physically.

13:03 Jun 2, 2012 

We mustn't forget about the solitary hotels that are in the middle of nowhere, where people go when they want to "switch off" and hotels that are in country towns, rather than bustling cities.