is hotel industry a primary, secondary and tertiary activity? Give reason.
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Restaurants provide services, which by definition place them in the tertiary sector.
Please note: In a comment, Sadiq Ali points out that restaurants prepare food, as well as serve it, and therefore should be considered as having the characteristics of both manufacturing, which falls within the secondary sector, and of a service industry, which falls within the tertiary sector.
This is a good point in principle, but in practice one of the functions of a classification scheme like that among primary, secondary, and tertiary industries is to assign borderline cases into one or another of the higher level classifications. And in this case, the existing industrial classification systems all count restaurants as services, and thus as part of the tertiary sector.
For example, the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 4 (ISIC, Rev.4) places restaurants under Division 56, “Food and Beverage Service Activities,” which is a subdivision of Section I, “Accommodations and Food Service Activities,” which in turn represents a major subdivision of the tertiary sector, which spans Sections G-U.
It is a tertiary activity as it gives a service to the consumers , like booking rooms, etc.