The English Terms Used in Hotels and Tourism Places and Their Correspondences in Indonesian

Abstract

The research motivation is to find out proper Indonesian terms used for hotel and tourism facilities, and the objectives are to find out the correspondences of the English terms used in hotels and tourism places in

English Hotel Terminology Equivalence in Other Language

“…However, one of the differences from other research is that this research stresses how the subjects of this research, both international and domestic hotel guests, comprehend the terms used at the hotel for amenities, services, and facilities. It should be emphasized that the differences between the prior research (see Rahayu, 2017) and this research are in the subjects and the hotels, as the research loci remain the same, but this research excluded tourist destinations. Similar research findings have been found on the strategies employed by the hotel guests who served as the study's subjects.…”

“…The results of this research on English hotel terms are consistent with the previous research (No Title, p.4 n.d.-b. ;Rahayu, 2017) and consistent use of terminology (see MacDonald et al, 2019).…”

“…The international guests at the 3-star hotel were picked to see their understanding of the hotel terminology used because they were more exposed to the Indonesian hotel terminology than those at the 4-or 5-star hotels that used English words. It should be emphasized that this research was a continuation of the researcher's earlier work, which looked into the English terms used in hotels and tourism places (see Rahayu, (2017). Due to the limited exposure of English terminology used at tourism places, the emphasis of this research was exclusively on hotel terms and hotel guests' strategies.…”

“…(Asmin, 2014) investigates the English hotel terminology used by the hotel front desk employees, but only in the communication between guests and hotel front office staff when utilizing the English terms used at the hotel without employing the translation of the local terms. Rahayu (2017) studied the English terms used in tourism places and hotels to determine the native correspondences to the English terms and the tourists' strategies for comprehending the native language terms. Learning strategies for overcoming problems in foreign language learning and teaching have been discussed by Moeller & Catalano (2015), and (Skehan, n.d.).…”