LODGING

Module 4: History and Development of Lodging At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to: 1. Describe and trace the history and evolution of lodging 2. Enumerate basic terminology in lodging

FOUNDERS OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY

ELLSWORTH M. STATLER He built and operated a hotel in Buffalo, New York Buffalo (1907), Cleveland (1912), Detroit (1915), St. Louis (1917), New York (1919), Buffalo (1923), Boston (1927) Pittsburgh/Hotel William Penn (1938), Washington D.C. (1943), Los Angeles (1952), Dallas (1955), Hartford (1956) In 1954, he sold the Statler chain of hotels to Conrad Hilton

E.M. STATLER

Ellsworth M. Statler

Features of the Buffalo Statler

The first commercial hotel Fire doors at the two main stairways Keyholes for door locks above the doorknob Light switch just inside each door Private bath, full-length mirror, and circulating ice water in each room Free morning newspaper for each guest Many new structural and engineering designs Slogan: A Room and a Bath for a Dollar and a Half

CONRAD HILTON
Conrad Hilton founded the international chain of business hotels which bear his name and became successful after WW1. He entered the hotel business by buying the Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas in 1919. the first hotel he had built was the Dallas Hilton, which opened on Aug. 2, 1925. He formed the Hilton Hotel Corporation in 1946 Hilton Hotels grew into the first coast-tocoast hotel chain, placing a special emphasis on the business traveller

CONRAD N. HILTON

CONRAD HILTON
He also purchased other prestigious inns, including the Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco, New York's Waldorf-Astoria, and the Palmer House in Chicago. Hilton's son Barron followed him as head of the company, which by the year 2000 had nearly 500 hotels around the world. Conrad Hilton died in 1979 (1887-1979) Hilton Garden Inns, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Harrison Conference Centers, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Red Lion Hotels and Inns, and Conrad International

CESAR RITZ
was a famous Swiss hotelier and founder of several hotels, most famously The Ritz Hotel. His nickname was "king of hoteliers, and hotelier to kings," and it is from his name and that of his hotels that the term ritzy derives. founder of the Paris hotel that made his name a synonym for elegance and luxury.

CESAR RITZ

 Ritz worked as the first manager of the Savoy Hotel before he opened the Htel Ritz in Paris, France in 1898. He went on to open The Ritz Hotel in London, United Kingdom and the Hotel Ritz Madrid in Madrid, Spain. Ritz enjoyed a long partnership with Escoffier, the famous French chef and father of modern French cooking. The partnership lasted until Ritz's breakdown. Ritz was born in Niederwald, Switzerland, and died in Ksnacht, near Lucerne, Switzerland (February 23, 1850October 24, 1918)

WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR AND JOHN JACOB ASTOR

There have been two luxury hotels in New York City called the Waldorf=Astoria. The first of them stood on the site of the Empire State Building on Fifth Avenue, while the present hotel is located at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan. It is a 47-story, 625 ft. (191 m) Art Deco landmark that dates from 1931 and is now owned by the Hilton Hotels Corporation.

WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR & JOHN JACOB ASTOR IV

KEMMONS WILSON
hotelier who opened the first Holiday Inn motel in Memphis in 1952 and it went international in 1960 He wanted to build a chain of hotels for the traveling family and later expanded his marketing plan to include business travelers. His accomplishments in real estate development coupled with his hotel management skills proved a highly successful combination.

KEMMONS WILSON

KEMMONS WILSON
Wilson also introduced the in-house Holidex central reservation system, which set the industry standard for both the volume of business it produced and the important byproduct data it generated

J.W. MARRIOTT AND J.W. MARRIOTT JR.

J. W. Marriott (19001985) founded his hotel empire in 1957 with the Twin Bridges Marriott Motor Hotel in Virginia, near Washington, D.C. Marriott Hotels and Resorts had grown to include Courtyard by Marriott and American Resorts Group at the time of J. W. Marriotts death in 1985, at which time J. W. Marriott Jr. acquired the Howard Johnson Company; he sold the hotels to Prime Motor Inns but retained 350 restaurants and 68 turnpike units.

JOHN WILLARD MARRIOTT SR. & JOHN WILLARD MARRIOTT JR.

J.W. MARRIOTT AND J.W. MARRIOTT JR.

In 1987, Marriott completed expansion of its Worldwide Reservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska, making it the largest single-site reservations operation in U.S. hotel history. Also in 1987, Marriott acquired the Residence Inn Company, an all-suite hotel chain targeted at extended-stay travelers. With the introduction of limited- service hotelshotels built with guest room accommodations and limited food service and meeting spaceMarriott entered the economy lodging segment, opening the first Fairfield Inn in Atlanta, Georgia, in

ERNEST HENDERSON AND ROBERT MOORE

The origins of Sheraton date back to 1937 when the company's founders, Ernest Henderson and Robert Moore, acquired their first hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts. Within two years, they purchased three hotels in Boston and soon expanded their holdings to include properties from Maine to Florida. At the end of its first decade, Sheraton had proven so popular and had become such a reliedupon brand that it was the first hotel chain to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

ERNEST HENDERSON & ROBERT MOORE

ERNEST HENDERSON AND ROBERT MOORE

Sheraton expanded internationally in 1949 with the purchase of two Canadian hotel chains and grew rapidly around the world. The 1960s saw the first Sheraton hotels in Latin America and the Middle East and, by 1965, the 100th Sheraton opened its doors. Sheraton reached a milestone in 1985 as the first international hotel chain to operate a hotel in the People's Republic of China. In April of 1995, Sheraton introduced Four Points by Sheraton Hotels, a new, midscale hotel brand offering a full-service hotel experience at a competitive price.

RAY SCHULTZ
In the early 1980s, Ray Schultz founded the Hampton Inn hotels, a company in the Holiday Inn Corporation. These hotels were tagged as limited-service, meting the needs of cost-conscious business travelers and pleasure travelers alike. Schultzs pioneering efforts in developing a product and e service for these market segments have proved a substantial contribution to the history of the hotel industry.