For use in this chapter, the following terms are defined:
1. “Hotel” and “motel” mean any hotel, motel, inn, public lodging house, rooming house or tourist court, or any place where sleeping accommodations are furnished to transient guests for rent, whether with or without meals, except the sales price from the renting of sleeping rooms in dormitories and in memorial unions of all State of Iowa universities and colleges.
2. “Renting” and “rent” include any kind of direct or indirect charge for any room, apartment or sleeping quarter in a hotel or motel, as defined in this chapter.