The Motel Industry in the United States
Author : Howard Edwin Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Motels
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Author : Howard Edwin Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Motels
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Author : Pawan Dhingra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804782024
Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and—although they are not all related—seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel. Most of these motel owners arrived in the United States with few resources and, broadly speaking, they are self-employed, self-sufficient immigrants who have become successful—they live the American dream. However, framing this group as embodying the American dream has profound implications. It perpetuates the idea of American exceptionalism—that this nation creates opportunities for newcomers unattainable elsewhere—and also downplays the inequalities of race, gender, culture, and globalization immigrants continue to face. Despite their dominance in the motel industry, Indian American moteliers are concentrated in lower- and mid-budget markets. Life Behind the Lobby explains Indian Americans' simultaneous accomplishments and marginalization and takes a close look at their own role in sustaining that duality.
Author : Paul E. Groth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520068766
From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. Also, the convenience of hotels has made them the residence of choice for a surprising number of Americans, from hobo author Boxcar Bertha to Calvin Coolidge. Groth examines the social and cultural objections to hotel households and the increasing efforts to eliminate them, which have led to the seemingly irrational destruction of millions of such housing units since 1960. He argues convincingly that these efforts have been a leading contributor to urban homelessness. This highly original and timely work aims to expand the concept of the American home and to recast accepted notions about the relationships among urban life, architecture, and the public management of residential environments.
Author : Molly W. Berger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1421401843
Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complex—and often contentious—relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, San Francisco's world-famous Palace, and Chicago's enormous Stevens. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.
Author : Timothy L. G. Lockyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0789033380
"Textbooks on the hotel industry are often limited in scope to only one discipline, perspective, or geographic area. The International Hotel Industry: Sustainable Management is international, interdisciplinary, and thought-provoking, allowing readers to understand management issues better by broadening the scope of their knowledge. Current and real examples of problems and issues are posed by the book through case studies and interviews with hotel managers around the world. Invaluable for use as a textbook in graduate and undergraduate courses in hospitality and hotel management, the book covers crucial areas of the industry such as effective marketing, human resource management, location, resource management, and sustainability."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Public works
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release :
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States International Trade Commission
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Exports
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 1961
Category : International travel regulations
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Publisher :
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN :