Domestic housekeeping refers to maintaining a house and includes cleaning bedrooms, kitchens, dining areas, and surrounding grounds. Institutional housekeeping applies to commercial lodging establishments like hotels and involves cleaning guest rooms, public areas, offices, lobbies, stores, and laundries. Housekeeping in commercial establishments is more complex than domestic housekeeping due to managing cleaning for many guests across different sections of a larger property.

1. Types of housekeeping
Domestic Housekeeping- refers
to housekeeping maintenance in
a house. It covers bedrooms,
kitchen, dining, receiving area,
grounds and the surroundings
areas within the house.

2. • Institutional Housekeeping applies to housekeeping maintenance in
commercial lodging establishments like hotels, resorts, inns and apartels.
Institutional Housekeeping usually covers the following areas:
Guest rooms & Hallways and corridors
Public Rooms and restaurants & Offices
Lobby, Stairways, Windows & Grounds
Stores, concessionaire shops
Linen and Laundry area
Housekeeping job in commercial establishments is more complex to
manage as compared to domestic housekeeping. With a lot of guests to
attend to, housekeeping responsibilities have to be distributed to several
sections of the housekeeping department.