EARLY HISTORY

• Greek/Roman Culture (40 BC)


  Traveled for social and religious purposes
• Roman businessmen


  • Traveled
• Romans


  • First pleasure travelers
• After fall of Roman Empire


  • Public hospitality fell in religious orders
• Inns


  • Actually private homes
• Nobility


  • Stayed in monasteries
• Stagecoach


  • Became favored transportation
• High demand for inns and taverns

  16th Century
• First Hotel


  • Hotel de Henry (1788), Cost $17,500 and has 60 beds
• Changed the course of culinary history

  French Revolution
• Auguste Escoffier


  • Established the Kitchen Brigade System
• Introduction of Railroads


  18th and Early 20th Century
• Transportation and lodging


  Could not be separated
• Spas and resorts


  • Believed to be medicinal and helpful
• Tremont Hotel


  • First Luxury Hotel, Boasted the 1st toilets and private bedrooms with locks on door
• Cesar Ritz (1889)


  • Famous Swiss Hotelier and the manager of the Savoy in London
• Ellsworth Milton Statler


  • Opened his 1st hotel in Buffalo, New York in 1907
• Conrad Hilton


  • King of Innkeepers, Opened his 1st hotel in Texas, the Mobley in 1919
• John Willard Marriot Sr.


  • Founder of the Marriot hotel chain
• Kemmon Wilson


  • Founder of Holiday Inn, Opened the 1st Holiday Inn Motel in Memphis in 1952, Holiday Inn went international in 1960
• Savoy Hotel opened in London, The General Manager was Auguste Escoffier


  19th Century (1898)
• Air Travel was made available to masses, Conventions and Conferences became an integral part of successful commerce


  20th Century
• 21st Century Restaurants

  • 1921 White Castle, 1927 Howard Johnsons, 1927 Marriott Hot Shoppe, 1965 TGI Friday's, 1982 Chili's
• HOSPITALITY

  • From the French word “hospice” means to provide for the weary; to take care of those traveling.
• The five segments of the hospitality umbrella

  • Accommodation / Lodging
  • Food and Beverage
  • Travel and Tourism
  • Assembly and Event Management (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions)
  • Gaming and Recreation
• Accommodation / Lodging


  A place where a person such as a traveler can stay for usually a short period of time. This area includes hotel, motel, resort, pension house, inn, air bnb, apartelle, condotel etc.
• Food and Beverage


  Defined as any place or establishment that provides food and beverage; a place where you can buy and eat a meal
• Travel and Tourism


  These are services that provides transportation and other services that the traveler may need like air, cruise ships, rail, coach, automobile and ecotourism
• Assembly and Event Management (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions)

  It is the application of project management to the creation and development of small and/or large scale personal and corporate events such as festivals, conferences, ceremonies, weddings, formal parties, concerts or conventions
• Gaming and Recreation


  It is defined as something people do to relax or have fun; activities done for enjoyment. This includes attractions, gaming, and parks