Inspection information
hotel/Motel/Tourist Rooming House
The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) requires a lodging permit for all lodging facilities in Wisconsin. Permits can be issued to individuals, partnerships, corporations, or other legal entities.
What counts as a lodging facility?
Hotel – All places wherein sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transients, in five or more rooms, and all places used in connection. "Hotelkeeper", "motel keeper" and "innkeeper" are synonymous, and "inn", "motel" and "hotel" are synonymous.
Tourist Rooming House – Any lodging place or tourist cabin or cottage with 4 or less sleeping rooms, where sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to tourists or transients. "Tourist Rooming House" does NOT include:
A private boarding or rooming house, ordinarily conducted as such, not accommodating tourists or transients
A hotel or motel
Bed and breakfast establishments
A "tourist or transient" means a person who travels from place to place away from his or her permanent residence for vacation, pleasure, recreation, culture, business or employment.
