Inns
Inns are sometimes corporations or buildings where travelers can seek lodging and, typically, foods and drinks. They're generally found in the country or along a road. Found in Europe, they potentially first sprang up when the Romans built their system of Roman roads 2 millennia gone. Some inns in Europe are a couple of centuries old. As well as providing for the wants of travelers, inns historically acted as community gathering places.
In Europe, it's the supply of accommodation, if anything that now separates inns from taverns, beer halls and boozers. The second have a tendency to supply alcohol (and, in UK, customarily cola drinks and occasionally food), but less typically accommodation. Inns had a tendency to be grander and more long-lived enterprises; traditionally they supplied not only food and lodging, but also stabling and fodder for the traveler's pony and fresh horses for the post coach.
Famous London examples of inns include the Tabard and the George. There's however no longer a formal difference between a hotel and other sorts of establishment. Many bars use the name "inn", either because they're long established or might have been previously training inns, or to summon up a specific type of image.
The first functions of an hotel are now customarily split among separate corporations ,e.g. hotels, lodges, and motels, all of which might supply the conventional functions of an hotel but which concentrate more on lodging purchasers than on other services ; public homes, which are essentially alcohol-serving enterprises ; and eateries and pubs, which serve foods and drinks.
Hotels regularly contain cafes and also regularly serve complimentary breakfast and meals, therefore providing all the functions of normal inns.
