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The purpose of this study is to compile the Hotel English Corpus(HEC) as English for Specific Purposes and examine the lexical characteristics of Hotel English. HEC is composed of 755,321 words and includes five genres such as books, websites, newspapers, academic journals and spoken English regarding the ‘hotel’. To build the corpus, some books were typed manually and PDF files were changed into the text files through nPDF tool. After building the HEC, WordSmith 6 program was used to identify frequencies and ranks of lexical items of HEC and extract the keywords. In particular, the collocation analysis of ‘hotel’ and ‘resort’ showed that HEC has some lexical features distinguished from the general English. This study will be expected to contribute to the ESP education fields including Hotel English education.