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Hundred Hotels: 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.
La Federation Rationale des Logis de France, 18 rue de 1'Arcade, Paris. There is a name and address for the low-budget traveler or for any "nonconformist" in travel to note. Logis means inn and this National Federation of Inns of France, founded in 1950, "has been working," to quote its own words, "with the help of local authorities, towards the modernization of hundred hotelss of inns and small hotels in the French provinces. These hotels are most frequently to be found off the beaten track and they have been picked especially for the picturesqueness of their surroundings, the excellence of their services and the quality of their cuisine." The Federation publishes an annual listing of these pleasant, inexpensive logis, its current Annuaire giving the facts on some seven or eight hundred hotels places.
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