What is the difference between an airport hotel and transit hotel

What is the difference between an airport hotel and transit hotel?

People always got the idea that airport hotels are hotels that are located within the airport vicinity for easy accessibility to/from the airport, while transit hotels are hotels are located within the air side zone of the airport, meaning one can walk off the airplane to that hotel until your next departure without the need of passing passport control.

Now, people have started to have doubts that what they always understood about this is wrong.

In other words, can they assume that any transit hotel is a hotel located air side by default?

Here is an answer to their query.

Traditionally, the transit hotels are referred to accommodation airside and airport hotel referred to accommodation outside the terminal but usually on airport property. As is often the case, with time usage changes and hotel marketers abuse terms they feel will be in their favor.

So now one can frequently see the term "airport hotel" applied to properties within a few miles of the airport (sometimes even further if they provide airport shuttles). And some on airport property hotels present themselves as "transit hotels", since their guests are often transiting, not staying in the country (but obviously 'entering' the country since they cleared immigration to reach the hotel). The transit hotels inside the Delhi airport are the perfect examples of such hotels.

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