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Linen

Meaning in tourism & hospitality, with examples

/ˈlɪnɪn/nounCommon term

In tourism & hospitality, linen means: In a hotel, all the cloth items used in rooms and restaurants, such as sheets, pillowcases, duvet covers, towels and tablecloths.

In Turkish: çarşaf ve havlu, yatak takımı, nevresim, otel tekstili

How it is used

Housekeeping talks about bed linen, bath linen, a linen change and the linen room, where clean linen is stored. As part of environmental programmes, many hotels change linen every few days unless guests ask for it more often.

Example sentences

  1. Fresh bed linen is in the linen room on the second floor.

  2. The guest in 207 asked us not to change the linen every day.

Common collocations

  • bed linen
  • bath linen
  • change the linen
  • linen room
  • table linen
  • housekeepingThe hotel department that cleans and prepares guest rooms and public areas and looks after towels, sheets and room supplies.
  • room attendantA housekeeping employee who cleans guest rooms, makes the beds and restocks towels and supplies.
  • laundry serviceA hotel service that washes, dries, irons or dry-cleans guests' clothes, usually for a fee shown on a price list.
  • toiletriesSmall personal care products such as shampoo, shower gel, soap and body lotion, provided for guests in the bathroom.

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