UKUGquma: Ungalifumana ithamsanqa?

Kule minyaka ingamashumi amathathu idlulileyo, bendiphila ubomi obulungileyo ngokwenza into endithanda ukuyenza. Ndingomnye wabacebisi behotele abapapashwa kakhulu eMelika.

Kule minyaka ingamashumi amathathu idlulileyo, bendiphila ubomi obulungileyo ngokwenza into endithanda ukuyenza. Ndingomnye wabacebisi behotele abapapashwa kakhulu eMelika. Ukanti ukungena kwam kwishishini lehotele yayiluthotho lwamathuba angalindelekanga. Umsebenzi wam wokuqala ehotele waba nguManejala ongumhlali kwiAmericanana yaseNew York (ngoku eyiSheraton New York Hotel). Umphathi jikelele yayinguTom Troy unyamezelo lwakhe, umonde kunye noqeqesho lwandinceda ukuba ndifunde ubugcisa bokugcina ihotele. UTom wayekhe waqeqeshwa ngaphambili kwiNkampani yeHotele yaseStatler. Amabali akhe malunga nobukrelekrele bukaEllsworth Statler agcinwe kwimemori yebhanki yam de ndaqalisa ukubhala incwadi yam: “Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry.”

Emva kweenyanga ezilishumi njengomphathi wesibini kule hotele yendibano inamagumbi o-1840, ndabizwa ngokuba nguManejala Jikelele weHotele iDrake enamagumbi angama-680 e-56th Street nasePark Ave. (ngoku engumngxuma emhlabeni). Emva kweminyaka emibini enesiqingatha ndikwiHotele yobunewunewu iDrake, ndaba nguManejala Jikelele weHotele yeSummit enamagumbi angama-762 e-51st Street naseLexington Avenue (ngoku ebizwa ngokuba yiDoubletree Hotel). Xa iNgqungquthela yakhiwa ngo-1969 yayiyihotele yokuqala entsha eNew York kwiminyaka engama-30 kwaye yayiyilwe ngumakhi odumileyo waseFlorida, uMorris Lapidus. Kwigqabaza elibalulekileyo malunga nokuyilwa kwayo, umgxeki wathi “yayikude kakhulu nolwandle.”

Emva kweminyaka emithathu ndikwiHotele yaseSummit, ndaqeshwa yiInternational Telephone & Telegraph Corporation eyayisandul’ ukufumana iSheraton Corporation of America. Emva konyaka njengomncedisi kuSekela Mongameli we-ITT weeNkonzo zabaThengi, ndiye ndanyuselwa ndaba nguMphathi weMveliso yeeNkonzo zeeHotele zeHlabathi. Kwiminyaka esixhenxe elandelayo, ndahamba kulo lonke elase-United States, eKhanada, eMzantsi Melika, eYurophu, eMbindi-mpuma, eHawaii, kwiMpuma Ekude ngeshishini le-ITT/Sheraton ndithethathethana ngophuhliso olutsha lwehotele kwaye ndiphonononga zonke iihotele zasekhaya nezamazwe ngamazwe zeSheraton iifom, uhlahlo lwabiwo-mali kunye neengxelo zenzuzo nelahleko.

Ngaloo minyaka, iNkampani yeHotele yaseDunfey eNew Hampshire yayiyeyona franchisee inkulu kaSheraton. Xa uDunfey wafunyanwa yiAetna Life and Casualty, uJack Dunfey wandicela ukuba ndisebenze njengomcebisi wakhe. Le khontrakthi yokubonisana yonyaka wonke indenze ndaseka inkampani yam yokucebisa ngehotele.

Kwiminyaka engamashumi amathathu edlulileyo, ndiye ndaqaphela ngakumbi nangakumbi ukuba ulwazi lwembali yeshishini lehotele lubalulekile kuye nabani na onomdla kwikhondo lomsebenzi kwishishini lokulala. Kunjengokuba uConfucius wabhalayo, “Fundisisa okwenzeka kwixesha elidluleyo ukuba ubuya kuxela ikamva.” Ngotshintsho olukhawulezayo lwetekhnoloji olwenzekayo, kubaluleke kakhulu kunakuqala ukuba sazi apho besikhona ukuze uqikelele apho siya khona.

Ndililungu leBhodi yabaCebisi kwiYunivesithi yaseNew York Preston Robert Tisch Centre for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management. Ndizibona ndinethamsanqa ukuba ndibekho ekuzalweni kwesikolo se-NYU "ihotele" emva kwe-1997. Ngezihlandlo ezininzi endiye ndafundisa esikolweni nakwezinye iindawo, ndiye ndachukunyiswa ngokubaluleka kwembali yehotele yaseMelika. ishishini.

Nceda uhlale ujonge ukupapashwa kwencwadi yam entsha ethi “Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry.” Iya kuxela amabali anomdla kaJohn McEntee Bowman, uCarl Graham Fisher, uHenry Morrison Flagler, uJohn Q. Hammons, uFrederick Henry Harvey, u-Ernest Henderson, uConrad Nicholson Hilton, uHoward Dearing Johnson, uJ. Willard Marriott, uKanjibhai Manchhubhai Patel, uHenry Bradley Isityalo, uGeorge Mortimer Pullman, u-AM Sonnabend, u-Ellsworth Milton Statler, uJuan Terry Trippe, kunye noKemmons Wilson.

UStanley Turkel, i-MHS, i-ISHC isebenza kwiofisi yakhe yokubonisana nehotele njengomsebenzi wedwa okhethekileyo kwimibandela ye-franchising, ulawulo lwe-asethi kunye neenkonzo zokuxhasa amatyala. Abathengi bakaTurkel ngabanini beehotele kunye nabathengi, abatyali-mali kunye namaziko abolekisa ngemali. U-Turkel ukhonza kwiBhodi yabaCebisi kunye neentetho kwi-NYU Tisch Centre yoBundwendwe, uKhenketho kunye noLawulo lweMidlalo. Ulilungu lombutho odumileyo waMazwe ngaMazwe wabaCebisi boBundwendwe. Amanqaku akhe axhokonxayo kwizifundo ezahlukeneyo zeehotele ziye zapapashwa kwiCornell Quarterly, Lodging Hospitality, Hotel Interactive, Hotel Online, AAHOA Lodging Business, njl. / ukutshatyalaliswa komonakalo okanye inkxaso yesimangalo, fowunela uStanley kwi-917-628-8549 okanye i-imeyile [imeyile ikhuselwe].

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