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Galveston Hotels: After his retirement (1901) he acted as chairman of the board which designed the galveston hotels, Texas, sea wall, and was consulting engineer for the causeway bridge linking galveston hotels Island with the mainland. In 1911 he planned the improvement of the port of Alvaro Obregon (formerly Frontera), Tabasco, Mexico.
Hotels are generally grouped in four main categories: commercial or transient hotels; resort hotels; residential hotels; and motels, or motor hotels. In the United States about 75% of the hotel rooms (excluding motels) are in commercial hotels, 16% in resort hotels (both summer and winter seasons), and the remaining 9% in residential hotels. About 80% of the American motel rooms are in commercial establishments and the remainder in resort motels.
The first great customers ir commercial hotels were traveling salesmen, imetimes called "commercial travelers," and irly hotels were almost always built in or very ose to railroad stations, so patrons would not ive to wrestle their bags and sample cases to ss convenient locations. The British railways jilt many of the first large hotels at their ations throughout the United Kingdom, and e hotels of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian ational railways were early Canadian landmarks, st as various "depot hotels" sprang up along the ilroad lines as the American frontier moved est during the great hotel-building period fol-wing the Civil War. At the same time, hotels ', la gare were opening in every city in Europe.
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