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The Swiss hotel rating was the first non-government formal hotel classification beginning in 1979. [3] It influenced the hotel classification in Austria and Germany. [ 3 ] The formal hotel classification of the DEHOGA (German Hotel and Restaurant Association) started on 1 August 1996 and proved successful with 80% of guests citing the hotel ...
In 1915, Edward O'Brien began editing The Best American Short Stories.This annual compiled O'Brien's personal selection of the previous year's best short stories. O'Brien claimed to read as many as 8,000 stories a year, and his editions contained lengthy tabulations of stories and magazines, ranked on a scale of zero to three stars, representing O'Brien's notion of their "literary permanence."
Tremont House in Boston, United States, a luxury hotel, the first to provide indoor plumbing The Boody House Hotel in Toledo, Ohio. Some English towns had as many as ten such inns and rivalry between them became intense, not only for the income from the stagecoach operators but for the revenue from the food and drink supplied to the wealthy ...
The "Great Sign" was a familiar sight on U.S. highways in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A Holiday Inn in New Orleans, pictured on a postcard c. 1975. The "Great Sign" was the roadside sign used by Holiday Inn during its original era of expansion from the 1950s to 1970s.
The American Hotel and Motel Association removed 'motel' from its name in 2000, becoming the American Hotel and Lodging Association. The association felt that the term 'lodging' more accurately reflects the large variety of different style hotels, including luxury and boutique hotels, suites, inns, budget, and extended stay hotels.
Kansas City, United States: The Hyatt Regency Kansas City was the site of one of the worst hotel disasters in U.S. history. On July 17, 1981, two of the three skybridges that traversed the hotel's lobby collapsed during a tea dance. The walkways were packed with people when a structural failure occurred, causing one bridge, which was hung from ...
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Forbes Travel Guide (formerly known as Mobil Guide or Mobil Travel Guide) is a star rating service and online travel guide for hotels, restaurants and spas. [1] In 2011, Forbes Travel Guide published its last set of guidebooks and, on November 15, 2011, launched its new online home, ForbesTravelGuide.com, [2] which covers numerous international destinations, including Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing ...