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Who is the father of the hotel?

Kemmons wilson, the founder of Holiday Inn, known as the "father of modern hotels", died at home on Wednesday at the age of 90.

Wilson was born in Arkansas, USA, and started from scratch with a flexible business mind. During the Great Depression, he borrowed more than 300 Hong Kong dollars to invest in a popcorn machine to start a business in the theater lobby, and after earning the first bucket of gold, he entered the jukebox industry.

After a trip to Washington with his wife, he came up with an idea to build a comfortable and cheap motel where children can stay for free. In 1950s, he started a hotel business in Memphis, Tennessee, and successively built four "Holiday Hotels", which laid the foundation for holiday hotel groups all over the world.

Wilson, who became a millionaire before he was 40, worked hard and sought truth from facts. He put forward the famous "Twenty Secrets of Success", one of which is: "It doesn't matter whether you work for half a day, before 12 hours or after 12 hours."