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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.