
- 280 pages
- English
- PDF
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The Economic Ascent of the Hotel Business
About this book
The Economic Ascent of the Hotel Business is about the hotel business and the economic contexts in which it has evolved. Slattery presents an understanding of the structural development of the economies in which hotels operate and which provide the potential for hotel demand and supply to grow. He draws on contemporary data and events to chart the historic development of economies and of the hotel business to illustrate patterns in this fundamental relationship. He also focuses on the economic conditions that produced hotel chains and provides a more comprehensive basis on which future developments in hotel demand, supply and performance can be understood. A review of the structural development of economies from the historic agrarian period to modern service business economies; Events are tracked at each economic stage to illustrate that the patterns in hotel demand and supply that emerges were a reflection of the economic developments; Extensive data is drawn on to track the development of international hotel chains and link them to the structural development of economies. Essential reading for hotel executives, their advisors and investors, as well as those studying the hospitality industry.
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Table of contents
- The case for the book
- Introduction
- Preface
- 1 Economic Structure
- 2 Historic Agricultural Economies and the Hotel Business to 1750
- 3 The Industrial Revolution and the Hotel Business: 1750β1850
- 4 Economic Developments and the Hotel Business: 1850β1900
- 5 Critical Events and the Hotel Business: 1900β1945
- 6 The US Economic Structure and Hotel Business: 1945β1960
- 7 European Economic Structures and Hotel Businesses: 1945β1960
- 8 The US Economic Structure and the Hotel Business: 1960β1980
- 9 The European Economies and Hotel Businesses: 1960β1980
- 10 The US Hotel Business: 1980β2010
- 11 The British Hotel Business: 1980β2010
- 12 Continental European Hotel Businesses: 1980β2008
- 13 The Economic Ascent of the Hotel Business: Options to 2020
- Index
- Websites
- Bibliography