Archive for the ‘Hotel Books’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
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The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with Duchamp and Celine, and where some of their most impor
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Tags: 19571963, beat, burroughs, corso, ginsberg, hotel, paris
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
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Who's haunting the Menger Hotel? Possibly some of its former guests: Robert E. Lee, Teddy Roosevelt, Mae West, Roy Rogers, and John Wayne. Founded in 1859, the Menger is renowned for colorful, fascinating, and often intriguing events that have made it a landmark hotel in San Antonio. Replete with photographs and anecdotes, This title will also keep
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Tags: history, hotel, menger, mystery
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
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Leads you through the process of buying and setting up a guesthouse or small hotel. This book aims to help you with the decisions that include: researching your market; setting your objectives and making your plan; finding the right property that you need to succeed; cooking and menu planning; and, reservations, reception and billing. In this bo
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Tags: buying, guesthouse, hotel, running, small
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
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This is the first book to fully explore the architecture, as well as the related economic, social, and cultural history, of the grand resort hotels of New Hampshire s scenic White Mountains. These beautiful buildings, situated in one of America s oldest and most heavily visited vacation and recreation locales, were the first structures in America d
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Tags: architectural, grand, hotels, legacy, mountains, resort, vanishing, white
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
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A new direction for the best-selling series: Hip Hotels focusing uniquely on cities.In the six years since Herbert Ypma invented a new genre of travel publishing with the original Hip Hotels, an astonishing expansion has brought Highly Individual Places into every neighborhood of one of the most vibrant cities in the world: New York.This new Hip Ho
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Tags: hotels, york
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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This student-centred guide to front office operations in the hotel industry employs a user-friendly approach to encourage self-access and enable students to progress at their own pace independently of the lecturer. Activities are provided throughout to help students move from an understanding of the basic principleds to thinking like a front office
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Tags: front, hotel, office, operations, principles
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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A successful manager inspection program proven to work.
Tags: cleanest, create, general, hotel, housekeeping, inspection, managers, program, reputation, town.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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This concise text gives travel and tourism students a look at the organizational and operational aspects of lodgings. It covers all departments of a property including front-office operations such as registration, luggage, room keys, accounting, checking out, housekeeping, engineering and security, and the food and beverage department. Students can
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Tags: hotelmotel, operations, overview
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
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A really well-designed public toilet is a rare and welcome discovery. It adds greatly to the impression made on a building's users -- whether in a restaurant, mall, airport or hotel. And, in the case of public toilets in parks and streets, a clean and aesthetically pleasant public toilet leaves the user with a positive opinion of the city as a whol
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Tags: architecture, bars, buildings, businesses, civic, design, edition, english, french, from, hotels, italian, public, restaurants, toilet, trends, worldwide
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Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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Tags: cool, hotels, wellness
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