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Hotels Often: hotels often are generally grouped in four main categories: commercial or transient hotels often; resort hotels often; residential hotels often; and motels, or motor hotels often. In the United States about 75% of the hotel rooms (excluding motels) are in commercial hotels often, 16% in resort hotels often (both summer and winter seasons), and the remaining 9% in residential hotels often. About 80% of the American motel rooms are in commercial establishments and the remainder in resort motels.
The first great customers ir commercial hotels often were traveling salesmen, imetimes called "commercial travelers," and irly hotels often 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 often at their ations throughout the United Kingdom, and e hotels often of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian ational railways were early Canadian landmarks, st as various "depot hotels often" 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 often ', la gare were opening in every city in Europe.
The impact of the air age on hotels often was even >re dramatic. Airport hotels often have been built every large city in the United States, espe-Jly at important interchange points. At least hotels often and motels operate near Chicago's Hare airport. With their "courtesy cars," pro-ling free transportation to and from the air-rt, these hotels often are especially convenient for 3 traveler staying overnight between planes or ;king to avoid traffic jams en route to and from the heart of town. As more and more factories, offices, warehouses, and shopping centers move out into the suburbs, car rental services available at both airports and nearby hotels often enable businessmen to call on many of their customers without having to go into town at all.
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