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Putting on the Ritz

Hotels and Other Homes Away from Home

From: Wanderlust

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Chapter Four focuses on hotels, inns, and other homes one uses while traveling. The chapter explores the history of hotels dating back to 1500 BC in Crete, to Roman Villa’s, Middle Eastern caravanserai for travels and traders, English Inns, Early European tourism, the late eighteenth and nineteenth century inventions of hotel business travel, the rise of the grand hotels, and finally the twentieth century invention of hotels for the masses.

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Laura Byrne Paquet

Laura Byrne Paquet is the author of The Urge to Splurge: A Social History of Shopping. Her articles have appeared in more than 70 publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including National Geographic, Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, enRoute, Chatelaine, Canadian Living, and the Ottawa Citizen. Between her globe-trotting adventures, she finds time to write romance novels from her Ottawa home.