ACCOMMODATION

DEVELOPMENTS
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INTRODUCTION TO HOSPITALITY
INDUSTRY

 Largest and fast growing industry

 Exciting and offers unlimited

opportunities

 Different areas of interest but

still with in the industry
CHARACTERISTICS (IGGOS)

 Intangible and perishable

 Guest satisfaction
 Graveyard shift
 Open 365 days and 24 hours
 S hift work
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SCOPE:

Travel and Tourism

LODGING

Entertainment and F and B

Recreation
HISTORY

Classic Greek and Roman Days

 Concept of Hospitality Industry is extremely

old :Belief (Superstitious fears)

“ Stranger might be God or an Evil spirit’’

GREECE
 Hospitality Industry is provided by elements
of religion:

1.) Missionaries

2.) Priest

3.) Pilgrims
ROME
 INNS
- a large mansion

 Owners
- would not allow a guest unless they,
Carried eviction

“LETTER OF EVICTION”
LETTER OF EVICTION
 permission to travel granted by the government
officials

Legionnaires
Build monuments
to civilization
Civil Officials
during their

a.) Exploration
b.) Conquering Expedition

 Mostly build in “Natural Springs”

TAVERN INN
BIBLE REFERENCE
 Bethlehem – Most famous Inn
 Middle Ages – Monasteries
( Function as Inn)

 Charlemagne – Enacted a law

“Christmas must provide a

free- resting place of traveler
as well as food”
 COLONIAL PERIOD:
(16TH – 18TH CENTURY)
1650- Public coach service
 Inns

- “Ordinary” as
describe by British
- build along the
routes primarily at
point where teams
of horses are change.
19TH CENTURY
Introduction of Railroads had a great
influence in H.I.
SPA’S

 Minerals springs or pool

 Medicinal or healthful

 Tourist sites since Roman days

 Famous resort
 French Riviera
 Homestead in Hot springs
 Southeastern, Virginia
Niagara Falls
 Canadian Horseshoes Fall.
Green Brier
 White Sulfur Springs resort in West Virginia
1841 – first tour
- Thomas cook (English man)
- 1 day train excursion

1856 – First travel Agent

- Booking of multiple rooms
- “Cook’s tours of Europe”
Tremont hotel in Boston
- first luxury Hotel
- first indoor toilets
- first private bedrooms with locks on the
doors.
1889 – famed luxury hotel in
1. Paris
2. New York
3. Other Cities
2OTH CENTURY

Motto:
“A bed with a bath for
a dollar and a half.’’
 FAMOUS INN KEEPERS
1. Ellsworth Milton Statler
 1970, New York, 1st hotel
 individual rooms with private bath

2. Conrad Hilton
 King of “inn keepers”
 1919 Mobley, Texas
 1925 Dallas Hilton
 1954 – Statler-Hilton
 located in New York Dallas Washington and
other cities
3. John Willard Marriot JR.
 Founder of the Marriott hotel chain

4. Kemmon Wilson
 Founder of holiday inn
 1st holiday inn in Memphis in 1952
 1960 it went international
TOURIST COURT
1920
– automobile led the hospitality industry
- Motel / Motor hotel
- a farmer owning land along the motor
routes build 10 foot by 10 foot cabins along
the road
- car would pulled right up the cabin
- owner of motels
- expanded 15 cabins
- called tourist court
GREAT DEPRESSION

- world war II 1930

- motels bankrupt
ADVENT OF AIR TRAVEL
 Air travel

 New mode of transportation

- Business travelers
INDUSTRY TODAY
- Alternative lodging

 Campground
- Commune with nature rather than
traditional lodging

 Harems
- One’s accommodated by a man’s 60 wives
 Treetops
- Rooms in huge trees
- Can watch wild animals feed at night.

 Ryokans
- Simple Japanese decoration

 Capsule hotel
( Kapuseru Hotero)
- Modular plastic or fiber glass block
- First: Capsule inn osara
DEFINITION OF TERMS
 Hospitality
- derived from the Latin word hospitare, meaning
“to received as a guest. It refers to the act of
providing food, beverages, or lodging to travelers

 Hospitality Management
- Involves the planning, organizing, directing and
controlling human and material resources within
lodging, restaurant, travel and tourism,
institutional management, recreational
management and meeting and convention
planning industries .
 The Hospitality Industry

- comprises of businesses that provide

accommodation, travel, food and beverage and
entertainment to the travelling public

 The Hotel Industry

- refers to business that offer lodging or

accommodation in conjunction with food and
entertainment, usually distinguished by a front
desk, dining and other common facilities
 Front of the Office
- refers to department or personnel that works
with direct contact with guest.
Eg.
Front office, food and beverages, sales and
marketing, security

 Back of the office

- refers to department or personnel that performs
behind the scene
Eg.
housekeeping, finance, engineering human
resource
 Hostellers

- Guest who stays at hotels.

 Hostels

- Accommodation of lesser quality

 Taverns

- 20 feet inns with public rooms or the first floor

and sleeping rooms above
BASIC TERMINOLOGY FOR LODGING FACILITIES
 inn
- is a small, typically rural, lodging establishment that may or
may not serve
 Hotels
- are multistoried lodging facilities which range in size from 20
rooms to hundred of rooms
 Motels
- a lodging establishment that cater to travelers with
automobiles and provides self-service parking premises
 Lodge
- a lodging establishment associated with particular type
of outdoor activity, such as ski lodge or hunting lodge
 Resorts

- refers to lodging facilities usually located at popular

vacation locations which offer recreational activities such as
golf, tennis, or casino gambling.

 Guest House/Tourist homes

- are privately owned homes where the owners rent individual

bedrooms to visitors

 Bed and Breakfast or B&Bs

- refers to guest houses in United Kingdom and North America; they

are smaller; more intimate, and less expensive than hotels and
motels
 Condominium (Condos)
- refers to apartment in high-rise buildings located mostly on
recreational areas.
- a furnished housing unit with kitchen area, living room area, sleeping
area, and bath.
 Boarding house
- is a residential facility affiliated with some educational or other
institution that provides sleeping accommodation for those in
residence.
 Dormitory
- refers to a lodging facility affiliated with some educational or other
institution that provides sleeping accommodation for those in resident.
 Nursing Homes
- is a residential facility that provides lodging and foodservice for
people requiring or related care. Those residing in nursing homes tend
to be temporarily or permanently infirm, physically or mentally