Tag: hotel history
Individual Identities: The Evolution of Hotel Names in the United States
William Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” For U.S. hoteliers in the first half of the twentieth century, the answer was that hotel names...
Much More Than Changing Sheets: Hanne Dittler Helped Hotel Housekeeping Evolve
For much of the hotel industry’s history, the story of women employed in hotels was one of low pay, second-class status, and no real...
Iced Out: The Slow Acceptance of Air Conditioning in Hotels
Staying up to date on the latest technological advances is one of the greatest challenges facing hoteliers in 2019. Innovations are constant, forcing those...
The Legacy of Hotel Interior Designer David T. Williams
“We try to get as much local feeling as possible in each hotel.” These words perfectly summarize the artistic view of hotel interior designer...
The Inside Inn Was the World’s Largest Hotel During the 1904 St. Louis World’s...
Ellsworth Statler, the legendary American hotelier, was a visionary who applied late 19th and early 20th century advances in technology and modern business systems...