Describe the development history of world hotels.

According to historical records, there was the embryonic form of hotels-inns in ancient Greece and Rome, but it was not until A.D.19th century that a large number of hotels were built and managed.

Foreign hotel industry has experienced four development periods from the earliest post stations, inns and hotels to modern hotels and international hotel chain companies.

(1) Internal period

This is the earliest prototype of the hotel, with extremely simple equipment, which can only provide the most basic accommodation services for tourists, with a small scale and low price.

(2) Hotel period

/kloc-In Europe in the 0/9th century, with the spread of the extremely luxurious lifestyle of the upper class, luxury hotels serving the royal family, nobles and big bourgeoisie came into being.

Represented by the "Paris Hotel" in France, these hotels are large in scale, unique in architecture, luxurious in equipment, exquisite in manners and thoughtful in service, which can meet the various needs of guests as much as possible and are expensive, and serve the wealthy dignitaries and privileged classes in the upper class.

(3) Business Hotel Period

At the beginning of the 20th century, with the development of the world economy and the opening of new markets, business tourism grew rapidly.

Business hotels are characterized by providing complete equipment and facilities, providing excellent services, making tourists feel comfortable, convenient, clean and safe, and the price is cheap and reasonable.

These hotels mainly serve businessmen and tourists, and the 300-room "statler Hotel" built by statler Company in Buffalo is its representative.

Hotels use scientific management methods to achieve low cost and high efficiency.

The appearance of this hotel marks that the hotel industry has entered a new historical period.

(d) The New Inn period

With the development of the world economy and the application of new technologies, especially the popularity of automobiles and the appearance of jet planes, the development and changes of the hotel industry have been accelerated.

The new hotel period is also called the hotel chain stage.

The so-called joint numbering means that dozens and hundreds of hotels share the same name, and there are unified norms and standards in hotel facilities, service level and management.

These companies first started in China and then expanded abroad.

The United States is the earliest, largest and largest country in the world to implement hotel joint operation.

The most famous hotel groups, such as Holiday Inn, Hilton Group and Sheraton Group, have tens of thousands of rooms all over the world.