EFFECT OF GLOBAL NETWORK OF HOTELS

Effect of Global Network of Hotels in the Hospitality Industry

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction3

Background information3

Research Questions4

Main Objectives4

Methodology9

Scope and Limitation9

References11

Chapter 1: Introduction

Background information

The first American hotels were built in the cities of the Atlantic coast in the 1790s, when elite urban merchants began to replace taverns with capacious and elegant establishments of their own creation. They hoped thereby to improve key elements of the national transportation infrastructure and increase the value of surrounding real estate, while at the same time erecting imposing public monuments that valorized their economic pursuits and promoted a commercial future for the still agrarian republic. Unlike earlier public accommodations, hotels were impressive structures, readily distinguishable as major public institutions due to their tremendous size, elaborate ornamentation, and sophisticated academic styles. (Wharton 2007) They were often designed by important architects like James Hoban, Charles Bulfinch, and Benjamin Latrobe. Hotels also had a distinctive internal arrangement incorporating grand halls for the use of the public and featuring dozens of bedchambers, which for the first time offered private space to all guests. Building on such a massive scale was tremendously expensive, and hotels cost from eight to thirty times as much as had been spent on even the finest taverns. Early hotels quickly became important centers of politics, business, and sociability. (Sandoval 2009)

The City Hotel in New York, for example, became the center of the Gotham elite's business pursuits and elegant society balls, and Washington's Union Public Hotel housed the U.S. Congress in 1814-1815 after the British army destroyed part of the Capitol. The first generation of hotel building continued into the first decade of the nineteenth century before being brought to a close by the financial failure of many of the first projects and the economic disruptions surrounding the War of 1812. (Raitz 2008)

The third generation of hotels was catalyzed by the rapid growth of the American railroad system in the decades after 1840, a development that freed long-distance travel from the limitations of the river system and recon-figured the nation's transportation network along an east-west axis. Hotels continued to multiply in the East and also proliferated along the advancing frontier of settlement, rising over the prairies and plains in the 1840s and 1850s and appearing in the mountain West in the 1860s and 1870s. The westward advance of hotel construction soon linked up with a counterpart that had originated with Anglo settlement of the Pacific coast and extended eastward. (Harris 2007)

Research Questions

Following research questions have been formulated:

What is the factor affecting contemporary view on global hotel industry?

What are the impacts of global technology in the hospitality industry?

What are some of the new trends and development in the global hospitality?

Main Objectives

Factor affecting contemporary view on global hotel industry

Impacts of global technology in the hospitality industry

New trends and development in the global hospitality

Hotel development also involved diversification of hotel types. Most early hotels had been large urban luxury establishments, but newer variants quickly ...