| Hospitality is known as a nice feature encountered | | | | discovered continent from all over the world. They |
| usually at people living in the countryside. In that | | | | needed a place to stay until they figured out where |
| environment, where little of the vices in the modern | | | | they could work, or where could they start building a |
| world have entered, people still trust a person who is | | | | house of their own. Around the ports there were |
| tired and hungry to offer her shelter for the night and a | | | | many inns to shelter all of these persons in transit. |
| warm meal. They appreciate when they are offered in | | | | The first inn in America is historically recorded in the |
| return different objects or even money. | | | | year 1607. The first publicly held hotel appeared |
| That must be how it all started. Then, people realized | | | | later-on in New York. An entire network of hotels |
| that hospitality was profitable. They built houses with | | | | appeared since then all-over the world. Year by year, |
| rooms for travelers and cooked for them to make | | | | due to the existence of competition, hotels began |
| their inn even more attractive. As far as history is | | | | offering not only food and shelter, but also other |
| concerned, inns have appeared from biblical times. | | | | facilities. This is how the star system has appeared. |
| Different reasons drove people away from home. | | | | Hotels where people could only sleep and eat had a |
| They used to travel for religious purposes, for | | | | small number of stars, while those where luxury |
| commerce, for education and for all the other reasons | | | | prevailed had more stars by their name. |
| which still make people leave the comfort of their | | | | According to their location and to the events which |
| homes for short periods of time. | | | | take place around them hotels have a certain aspect, |
| Inns were mainly placed in the proximity of ports or at | | | | without ever ignoring the standard of quality. They |
| the crossroads of much circulated roads. With the | | | | focus on providing comfort based on rural accessories |
| colonization of America the industry of hotels has | | | | and locally sourced food and on making all visitors feel |
| flourished. People were coming to the recently | | | | at home in their friendly inn. |