Hourly rooms are cheap, but usually few people reserve them. Every time school starts, new students arrive at school one week in advance. In the absence of dormitory arrangement in the school, they can only live in a small hotel near the school. This can make a lot of money for small hotels.
Some parents who are worried about their children will personally send their children to school. It costs hundreds to stay for a night or two. Small hotels near the school are not just tourists like students. Occasionally, tourists come to stay, and some come directly from tour groups.
After the upsurge of starting school recedes, the tourists in the hotel may be mainly young couples. As soon as the winter and summer vacations are over, these small hotels make money by signing contracts with tour groups. Anyway, at any time, small hotels near the university make money, but sometimes they make less.