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71-472: American motel chain Friendship Inn Company type Economy motel Industry Hotel Founded 1961 ; 63 years ago  ( 1961 ) Salt Lake City, Utah , U.S. Defunct 1997  ( 1997 ) Parent Choice Hotels [REDACTED] A promotional postcard from Friendship Inns of America. Friendship Inn

142-487: A marketing co-operative . With the introduction of chains, independent motels started to decline. The emergence of freeways bypassing existing highways (such as the Interstate Highway System in the U.S.) caused older motels away from the new roads to lose clientele to motel chains built along the new road's offramps. Some entire roadside towns were abandoned. Amboy, California (population 700) had grown as

213-469: A Route 66 rest stop and would decline with the highway as the opening of Interstate 40 in 1973 bypassed the village entirely. The ghost town and its 1938 Roy's Motel and Café were allowed to decay for years and used by film makers in a weathered and deteriorated state. Even the original 1952 Holiday Inn Hotel Courts in Memphis closed by 1973 and was eventually demolished, as I-40 bypassed U.S. 70 and

284-405: A balcony served by multiple stairwells. The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography. U.S. Route 66 is the most popular example of

355-493: A cluster of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts was sold for US$ 3.9 billion to Colony Capital, LLC . As a result of that purchase, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts was united with Raffles Hotels and Resorts and Swissôtel to form Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI), though the four chains still operate under their individual names. In April 2010, Kingdom Hotels sold 22% of its shares of FRHI (from 58% to 35%) to Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment, giving them 40% of FRHI and became

426-513: A decline in revenue for individual franchisees. An influx of newly concocted brands became a key factor in a boom in new construction which ultimately led to market saturation . Fairmont Hotels and Resorts The company originated from two hotel businesses established in the late 19th century, the Canadian Pacific Limited -owned Canadian Pacific Hotels & Resorts , and Fairmont Hotels. In 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels acquired

497-431: A different trademark and branding , major hotel chains could build new limited-service properties near airports and freeways without undermining their existing mid-price brands. Creation of new brands also allowed chains to circumvent the contractual minimum distance protections between individual hoteliers in the same chain. Franchisors placed multiple properties under different brands at the same motorway exit, leading to

568-399: A family vacation. He would build his own motel at 4941 Summer Avenue ( U.S. 70 ) on the main highway (U.S. 70) from Memphis to Nashville , adopting a name from a 1942 musical film Holiday Inn about a fictional lodge only open on public holidays. Every new Holiday Inn would have TV, air conditioning, a restaurant, and a pool; all would meet a long list of standards in order to have

639-437: A group of motel owners in the southwestern U.S., published a guidebook until the early 1950s. A splinter of this now-defunct group, Quality Courts, began as a referral chain in 1941, but was converted to a franchised operation ( Quality Inn ) in the 1960s. Budget Host and Best Value Inn are also referral chains. Best Western (1946) was a similar referral chain of independent western U.S. motels. It remains in operation as

710-639: A guest in Memphis to have the same experience as someone in Daytona Beach, Florida or Akron, Ohio . Originally a motel chain, Holiday Inn was first to deploy an IBM -designed national room reservations system in 1965 and opened its 1000th location by 1968. In 1954 a 60-room motor hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona , opened as the first Ramada ( Spanish for " a shaded resting place "). The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel , established in 1957 near Washington, D.C. as

781-635: A joint partnership with the Kingdom Holding Company ; consolidating Fairmont with their other hotel brands, Raffles and Swissôtel to form Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI). FRHI in turn became a subsidiary of AccorHotels in 2016. Canadian Pacific Hotels (CP Hotels) began as a division of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Hotels department. The division operated a series of hotels along CPR's rail lines as early as 1886. Many of these resort hotels were built and operated by

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852-611: A lodging establishment called " Milestone Mo-Tel " in San Luis Obispo , California, which was constructed in 1925 by Arthur Heineman . In conceiving of a name for his hotel, Heineman combined the two words motor hotel into one word as mo-tel , after he found that he could not fit the words "Milestone Motor Hotel" on the rooftop. Therefore the word "motel" and literally the first motel was born. Many other similar businesses followed in its footsteps and started building their own auto camps, as well as calling themselves "motels". Later, as

923-495: A majority interest in Fairmont Hotels; with Canadian Pacific Hotels later renaming its entire hotel portfolio under the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts banner in 2001. Shortly after the hotel division was renamed, Canadian Pacific Limited was split into several smaller companies in a starburst move, with Fairmont becoming a separately-traded company. In 2006, Fairmont was acquired by Colony Capital , who subsequently entered into

994-476: A member of Quality Courts, became the first Marriott in 1959, expanding from motel to hotel in 1962. For individual motel owners, a franchise chain provided an automated central reservation system and a nationally recognized brand which assured consumers that rooms and amenities met a consistent minimum standard. This came at a cost; franchise fees, marketing fees, reservation fees, and royalty fees were not reduced during times of economic recession, leaving most of

1065-417: A member-owned chain, although the modern Best Western operation shares many of the characteristics (such as centralized purchasing and reservation systems) of the later franchise systems. The earliest motel chains, proprietary brands for multiple properties built with common architecture, were born in the 1930s. The first of these were ownership chains, in which a small group of people owned and operated all of

1136-461: A motel chain was not pursued further. In 1951, residential developer Kemmons Wilson returned to Memphis, Tennessee disillusioned by motels encountered on a family road trip to Washington, D.C. In each city, rooms varied from well-kept to filthy, few had a swimming pool, no on-site restaurant meant a few miles driving to buy dinner, and (while the room itself was $ 8 to $ 10) motor courts charged $ 2 extra per child, substantially increasing costs of

1207-453: A motel strip extending from Lundy's Lane to the falls has long been marketed to newlyweds) would offer "honeymoon suites" with extra amenities such as whirlpool baths . The first campgrounds for automobile tourists were constructed in the late 1910s. Before that, tourists who couldn't afford to stay in a hotel either slept in their cars or pitched their tents in fields alongside the road. These were called auto camps. The modern campgrounds of

1278-455: A restaurant or diner or buy a meal no matter how much money you had. You couldn't find a place to answer the call of nature even with a pocketful of money...if you were a person of color traveling on Route 66 in the 1940s and '50s. The Negro Motorist Green Book (1936–64) listed lodgings, restaurants, fuel stations, liquor stores, and barber and beauty salons without racial restrictions; the smaller Directory of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses in

1349-422: A result of failing to obtain a registered trademark for the word "Mo-Tel" or "motel", Milestone Mo-Tel was renamed simply as " Motel Inn ". Combining the individual cabins of the tourist court under a single roof yielded the motor court or motor hotel. A handful of motor courts were beginning to call themselves motels, a term coined in 1926. Many of these early motels are still popular and are in operation, as in

1420-487: A room in a distant city. The main roads into major towns therefore became a sea of orange or red neon proclaiming VACANCY (and later C O L O R TV, air conditioning, or a swimming pool) as competing operators vied for precious visibility on crowded highways. Other venues for advertising were local tourist bureaus and postcards provided for free use by clients. A rating in the Directory of Motor Courts and Cottages by

1491-423: A single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and in some circumstances, a common area or a series of small cabins with common parking. Motels are often individually owned, though motel chains do exist. As large highway systems began to be developed in the 1920s, long-distance road journeys became more common, and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sites close to

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1562-466: A tip for service. In the 1940s, most construction ground to a near-halt as workers, fuel, rubber, and transport were pulled away from civilian use for the war effort. What little construction did take place was typically near military bases where every habitable cabin was pressed into service to house soldiers and their families. The post-war 1950s ushered in a building boom on a massive scale. By 1947, approximately 22,000 motor courts were in operation in

1633-617: A very limited selection of continental breakfast foods but have no restaurant, bar, or room service. Journey's End Corporation (founded 1978 in Belleville, Ontario ) built two-story hotel buildings with no on-site amenities to compete directly in price with existing motels. Rooms were comparable to a good hotel but there was no pool, restaurant, health club, or conference center. There was no room service and generic architectural designs varied little between cities. The chain targeted "budget-minded business travelers looking for something between

1704-626: The Château Laurier in Ottawa. CPR purchased Canadian National Hotels , Canadian National Railway's hotel division in 1988, making CP Hotels the nation's largest hotel owner. In the 1990s, CP Hotels began to expand and purchased the Canadian Delta Hotels chain and the international Princess Hotels chain in 1998, which became wholly owned subsidiaries of CP Hotels. In 1999, the CP Hotels purchased

1775-615: The Colony Square Hotel in Atlanta as Fairmont Colony Square Hotel from its opening in 1974 to 1977, and The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia as Fairmont Philadelphia from 1979 to 1980. In April 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Kingdom Hotels International and Maritz Wolff & Co. bought Fairmont Hotels Management L.P., with Canadian Pacific Hotels holding the majority of the shares (67%). In 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited ,

1846-785: The Palliser Hotel , the Fairmont Royal York , and others. In addition to its properties in Canada, the hotel chain operated a few hotels outside Canada, with properties in Germany , Israel , Mexico , and the United States . CPR's rival Grand Trunk Railway and later Canadian National Railway copied Van Horne's approach by building hotels such as the Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper, Alberta, and

1917-412: The parking area for motor vehicles rather than through a central lobby . Entering dictionaries after World War II , the word motel , coined as a portmanteau of "motor hotel", originates from the defunct lodging compound establishment; The Milestone Mo-Tel in San Luis Obispo, California (later renamed as "Motel Inn"), which was built in 1925. The term referred to a type of hotel consisting of

1988-508: The southwestern United States , a handful of tourist homes were opened by African Americans as early as the Great Depression due to the lack of food or lodging for travelers of color in the Jim Crow conditions of the era. There were things money couldn't buy on Route 66. Between Chicago and Los Angeles you couldn't rent a room if you were tired after a long drive. You couldn't sit down in

2059-611: The "neon era". Many of these signs remain in use to this day. In some motels, a handful of rooms would be larger and contain kitchenettes or apartment-like amenities; these rooms were marketed at a higher price as "efficiencies" as their occupants could prepare food themselves instead of incurring the cost of eating all meals in restaurants. Rooms with connecting doors (so that two standard rooms could be combined into one larger room) also commonly appeared in both hotels and motels. A few motels (particularly in Niagara Falls, Ontario , where

2130-481: The "signature" hotels and resorts under the new Fairmont banner. Later that year in October 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited spun off all of its subsidiary companies into separately traded "independent" companies, including Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Companies like Fairmont Hotels and Resorts were split into smaller companies in a 2001 " starburst " move designed to increase the valuations of its individual divisions. In

2201-492: The 1920s and 1930s provided running water, picnic grounds, and restroom facilities. Auto camps predated motels by a few years, established in the 1920s as primitive municipal camp sites where travelers pitched their own tents. As demand increased, for-profit commercial camps gradually displaced public campgrounds. Until the first travel trailers became available in the 1930s, auto tourists adapted their cars by adding beds, makeshift kitchens and roof decks. The next step up from

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2272-517: The 1970s and 1980s, independent motels were losing ground to chains such as Motel 6 and Ramada, existing roadside locations were increasingly bypassed by freeways, and the development of the motel chain led to a blurring of motel and hotel. While family-owned motels with as few as five rooms could still be found, especially along older highways, these were forced to compete with a proliferation of Economy Limited Service chains. ELS hotels typically do not offer cooked food or mixed drinks; they may offer

2343-578: The American Automobile Association was just one of many credentials eagerly sought by independent motels of the era. Regional guides (such as Official Florida Guide by A. Lowell Hunt or Approved Travelers Motor Courts ) and the food/lodging guidebooks published by restaurant reviewer Duncan Hines ( Adventures in Good Eating , 1936 and Lodging for a Night , 1938) were also valued endorsements. The referral chain in lodging originated in

2414-696: The Fairmont Roosevelt, and then Fairmont New Orleans. The Fairmont San Jose was opened by the hotel chain in 1987. The company assumed management of the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1995 and purchased the Copley Plaza Hotel in 1996, renaming it The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel . By 1998, the company managed seven properties in the United States. In addition to those properties, the company also operated

2485-554: The Mississippi River) until the 1960s. Both built national supply chain and reservation systems while aggressively removing properties not meeting minimum standards. In 1963, their paths diverged. Quality Courts became Quality Inn , abandoning its former co-operative structure to become a for-profit corporation, use shareholder capital to build entirely company-owned locations, and require its members to become franchisees, while Best Western retained its original member-owned status as

2556-737: The Penthouse Suite was created with three secret passageways to access it. In 1945, the Fairmont San Francisco was acquired by Benjamin Swig . Beginning in the 1960s, the Swig family developed Fairmont into a small chain of luxury hotels throughout the United States. Operating as Fairmont Hotels Management, the hotel chain acquired, and built a number of hotel properties. The chain acquired the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans in 1965, renaming it

2627-620: The San Francisco-based Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. During the 1890s, James Graham Fair bought the land where the Fairmont San Francisco now stands, the first hotel to bear the Fairmont namesake. The nearly completed structure survived the earthquake of 1906 . Although heavily damaged by the subsequent fires, the hotel was renovated under the eye of architect Julia Morgan and finally opened in 1907. In 1926,

2698-535: The U.S. alone; a typical 50-room motel in that era cost $ 3000 per room in initial construction costs, compared to $ 12,000 per room for metropolitan city hotel construction. By 1950 there were 50,000 motels serving half of the 22 million U.S. vacationers; a year later motels surpassed hotels in consumer demand. The industry peaked in 1964 with 61,000 properties and fell to 16,000 properties by 2012. Many motels began advertising on colorful neon signs that they had "air cooling" (an early term for "air conditioning") during

2769-601: The USA, Fairmont acquired the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California in 2014. In 2015, AccorHotels, with the approval and support of the external party, announced the acquisition of FRHI, thus adding Raffles Hotels and Resorts , Fairmont and Swissôtel to its Luxury Hotel Brands portfolio. Acquiring Fairmont Hotels & Resorts enabled the French hotel group to gain greater access to

2840-599: The United States Hotels established in 1961 Choice Hotels brands American companies established in 1961 1961 establishments in Utah American companies disestablished in 1997 Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Motel A motel , also known as a motor hotel , motor inn or motor lodge , is a hotel designed for motorists, usually having each room entered directly from

2911-620: The United States (1939, U.S. Travel Bureau) specialized in accommodations. Segregation of U.S. tourist accommodation would legally be ended by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and by a court ruling in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States affirming that Congress' powers over interstate commerce extend to regulation of local incidents (such as racial discrimination in a motel serving interstate travelers) which might substantially and harmfully affect that commerce. The term "motel" originated from

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3053-464: The beach-front motel instantly became a success. In major beach-front cities such as Jacksonville, Florida , Miami, Florida , and Ocean City, Maryland , rows of colorful motels such as the Castaways, in all shapes and sizes, became commonplace. The original motels were small, locally owned businesses which grew around two-lane highways which were main street in every town along the way. As independents,

3124-407: The business risk with the franchisee while franchise corporations profited. Some franchise contracts restricted the franchisee's ability to sell the business as a going concern or leave the franchise group without penalty. For the chain, the franchise model allowed a higher level of product standardization and quality control than was possible as a referral chain model while allowing expansion beyond

3195-487: The case of the 3V Tourist Court in St. Francisville, Louisiana , built in 1938. During the Great Depression, those still traveling (including business travelers and traveling salespeople) were under pressure to manage travel costs by driving instead of taking trains and staying in the new roadside motels and courts instead of more costly established downtown hotels where bell captains , porters , and other personnel would all expect

3266-547: The chain repositioned itself as a mid-price hotel brand. The Twin Bridges Marriott was demolished for parkland in 1990. Many independent 1950s-era motels would remain in operation, often sold to new owners or renamed, but continued their steady decline as clients were lost to the chains. Often the building's design, as traditionally little more than a long row of individual bedrooms with outside corridors and no kitchen or dining hall, left it ill-suited to any other purpose. In

3337-481: The coin-operated Magic Fingers vibrating bed were briefly popular; introduced in 1958, these were largely removed in the 1970s due to vandalism of the coin boxes. The American Hotel Association (which had briefly offered a Universal Credit Card in 1953 as forerunner to the modern American Express card) became the American Hotel & Motel Association in 1963. As many motels vied for their place on busy highways,

3408-585: The depression as governments attempted to create employment, but the roadside cabin camps were primitive, basically just auto camps with small cabins instead of tents. The 1935 City Directory for San Diego , California, lists "motel"-type accommodations under tourist camps. One initially could stay in the Depression-era cabin camps for less than a dollar per night, but small comforts were few and far between. Travelers in search of modern amenities soon would find them at cottage courts and tourist courts. The price

3479-410: The early 1930s, originally serving to promote cabins and tourist courts. A predecessor of the modern "franchise chain" model, a referral chain was a group of independent motel owners in which each member lodge would voluntarily meet a set of standards and each property would promote the others. Each property would proudly display the group's name alongside its own. United Motor Courts, founded in 1933 by

3550-611: The early 2000s, Fairmont multiplied its openings in the United States. In 2001, Fairmont introduced the Willow Stream Spa prototype, a $ 7 million 2-floor 8,000-square-foot spa located inside the Fairmont Empress Hotel. The signature spa brand was then implemented in many of Fairmont's locations. In July 2001, Fairmont Hotels signed a joint-venture with Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for a minority-stake purchase and

3621-410: The full-service luxury hotels and the clean-but-plain roadside inns", but largely drew individual travelers from small towns who traditionally supported small roadside motels. International chains quickly followed this same pattern. Choice Hotels created Comfort Inn as an economy limited service brand in 1982. New limited-service brands from existing franchisors provided market segmentation ; by using

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3692-427: The hot summers or were "heated by steam" during the cold winters. A handful used novelty architecture such as wigwams or teepees . The 1950s and 1960s was the pinnacle of the motel industry in the United States and Canada. As older mom-and-pop motor hotels began adding newer amenities such as swimming pools or color TV (a luxury in the 1960s), motels were built in wild and impressive designs. In-room gimmicks such as

3763-782: The lucrative North American market. In 2015, Fairmont stated it would invest in two new hotels in Egypt, in addition to its existing Fairmont hotel located in Cairo. In 2017, Fairmont opened the Fairmont Quasar Istanbul, its first hotel in Turkey . In 2019, Fairmont opened its first South American hotel in Brazil. In 2021, Fairmont opened the Fairmont Taghazout Bay hotel in Morocco , and

3834-523: The main routes led to the growth of the motel concept. Motels peaked in popularity in the 1960s with rising car travel, only to decline in response to competition from the newer chain hotels that became commonplace at highway interchanges as traffic was bypassed onto newly constructed freeways . Several historic motels are listed on the US National Register of Historic Places . Motels differ from hotels in their location along highways, as opposed to

3905-566: The management of a luxury 393-room hotel in Dubai . The Fairmont Dubai property was the first Fairmont branded hotel in the Middle East. In 2003, Fairmont introduced Fairmont Heritage Place, a chain of timeshare hotels, with the first opening in Mexico . In 2004, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. paid $ 70 million to take full control of the management company that runs its properties. Then in early 2006,

3976-459: The maximum practical size of a tightly held ownership chain. In some cases, loosely knit ownership chains (such as Travelodge ) and referral chains (such as Quality Courts, founded in 1939 by seven motel operators as a non-profit referral system) were converted to franchise systems. Quality Courts (1939) and The Best Western Motels (1946) were both originally referral chains and largely marketed together (as Quality Courts were predominantly east of

4047-651: The motels under one common brand. Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts , founded 1929 in East Waco, Texas , was the first such chain with seven motor courts by 1936 and more than twenty by 1955. With Simmons furniture, Beautyrest mattresses on every bed, and telephones in every room, the Alamo Plaza rooms were marketed as "tourist apartments" under a slogan of "Catering to those who care." In 1935, building contractor Scott King opened King's Motor Court in San Diego, California , renaming

4118-603: The original property Travelodge in 1939 after having built two dozen more simple motel-style properties in five years on behalf of various investors. He incorporated and expanded the entire chain under the TraveLodge banner after 1946. In 1937, Harlan Sanders opened a motel and restaurant as Sanders Court and Café alongside a fuel station in Corbin, Kentucky ; a second location was opened in Asheville, North Carolina , but expansion as

4189-665: The outskirts of towns that were as quirky as their owners. Auto camps continued in popularity through the Depression years and after World War II, their popularity finally starting to diminish with increasing land costs and changes in consumer demands. In contrast, though they remained small independent operations, motels quickly adopted a more homogenized appearance and were designed from the start to cater purely to motorists. In town, tourist homes were private residences advertising rooms for auto travelers. Unlike boarding houses , guests at tourist homes were usually just passing through. In

4260-407: The parent company of both Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts, and Canadian Pacific Railway, was reorganized. During this reorganization, Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts was renamed to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, using the name of the company it had purchased in 1999. The newly re-organized Fairmont company transferred several properties to its Delta Hotels subsidiary, although it retained most of

4331-574: The quality of accommodation varied widely from one lodge to another; while a minority of these properties were inspected or rated by the American Automobile Association and Canadian Automobile Association (which have published maps and tour book directories of restaurants and rooms since 1917), no consistent standard stood behind the "sanitized for your protection" banner. There was no real access to national advertising for local motels and no nationwide network to facilitate reservation of

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4402-710: The railway's hotel department, while a few were later acquired from Canadian National Hotels , a hotel division of the Canadian National Railway . Over the years, a collection of grand railway hotels was put together throughout Canada, both rural and urban. By the 1980s, CP Hotels' collection included the Chateau Lake Louise , the Banff Springs Hotel , the Château Frontenac , the Empress Hotel ,

4473-530: The same throughout its lifetime, was a coat of arms designed by a British heraldry expert. In 1985, the referral chain was converted into a corporate franchise, managed by the new Friendship Inns Franchising Corporation based in North Bergen, New Jersey . By 1989, the number of Friendship Inn franchises had fallen to 129. That same year, the Friendship Inn was acquired by Econo Lodges of America , which in turn

4544-905: The second largest shareholder of the company. The remaining 60% belonged to a private shares holding in Sweden, trusted in ACCOR hotels, and other investors. The Middle East became Fairmont's new target market, where Fairmont opened in the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel in 2010 and at the Palm Jumeirah in 2012. In Asia, Fairmont reopened the Peace Hotel in Shanghai in 2010, opened in Baku ’s Flame Towers in 2011, and opened its first hotel in India in 2012. In

4615-505: The travel trailer was the cabin camp, a primitive but permanent group of structures. During the Great Depression , landholders whose property fronted onto highways built cabins to convert unprofitable land to income; some opened tourist homes . The (usually single-story) buildings for a roadside motel or cabin court were quick and simple to construct, with plans and instructions readily available in how-to and builder's magazines. Expansion of highway networks largely continued unabated through

4686-467: The urban cores favored by hotels, and their orientation to the outside (in contrast to hotels, whose doors typically face an interior hallway). Motels almost by definition include a parking lot, while older hotels were not usually built with automobile parking in mind. Because of their low-rise construction, the number of rooms which would fit on any given amount of land was low compared to the high-rise urban hotels which had grown around train stations. This

4757-415: The vast network of two-lane highways. Motels are typically constructed in an I-, L-, or U-shaped layout that includes guest rooms; an attached manager's office; a small reception; and in some cases, a small diner and a swimming pool. A motel was typically single-story with rooms opening directly onto a parking lot, making it easy to unload suitcases from a vehicle. A second story, if present, would face onto

4828-458: Was an American motel chain. Established as a referral chain based in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1961, Friendship Inns of America did not require its members to meet the same restrictive standards or high membership fees as many competing chains of the time. As a result, the Friendship Inn branding spread rapidly, with 771 member locations in 1974, largely older independent motels with low prices and limited amenities. The chain's logo, which remained

4899-6513: Was bought out by Quality Inns International (later Choice Hotels ) in 1990. In 1997, the Friendship Inn brand was eliminated, with its locations being converted to the Rodeway Inn brand. See also [ edit ] List of motels [REDACTED] Hotels portal References [ edit ] ^ Jakle, John A; Sculle, Keith A; Rogers, Jefferson S (2002). The Motel in America . JHU Press. pp. 162–165. ISBN   9780801869181 . Retrieved May 28, 2018 . ^ "Hotel Logos, 1981" , Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly , volume 22, issue 3, November 1981, page 27. ^ Foust, Cassandra Poteat. "He Holds Key To Econo Lodges' Future" , Charlotte Observer , November 27, 1989, page 3D and 17D . ^ Altaner, David. "$ 60 million deal to link hotel chains" , South Florida Sun Sentinel , August 18, 1990, page 11B. ^ "Choice Hotels International, Inc. 1997 Annual Report to Stockholders" , via EDGAR, Securities and Exchange Commission . Retrieved May 30, 2024. v t e Hotel chains Accor Luxury Banyan Tree Fairmont Orient Express Raffles Sofitel Premium Grand Mercure MGallery Mövenpick Pullman Swissôtel Midscale Adagio Mantra Mercure Novotel Suite Novotel Economy HotelF1 Ibis Budget Styles Ennismore DELANO Gleneagles The Hoxton HYDE JO&JOE Mama Shelter MONDRIAN Morgans Originals Rixos SLS Best Western Aiden Best Western Best Western Plus Best Western Premier BW Premier Collection BW Signature Collection Executive Residency GLō Sadie Vīb SureStay SureStay Studio SureStay Plus SureStay Collection BTG Homeinns Homeinn Motel 168 Choice Hotels Ascend Collection Cambria Clarion / Clarion Pointe Comfort Country Inn & Suites Econo Lodge Everhome Suites MainStay Suites Park Plaza / Park Inn Quality Inn Radisson Radisson Blu Radisson Collection Radisson Individuals Radisson Red Rodeway Inn Sleep Inn Suburban Studios WoodSpring Suites Global Hotel Alliance Anantara Avani Corinthia The Doyle Collection Elewana Collection Fauchon Hospitality GLO Kempinski The Leela Marco Polo Niccolo Nikki Beach Oaks Outrigger Pan Pacific Sukhothai Sun International Tivoli hihotels Downtowner Inns Master Host Inns Passport Inns Red Carpet Inn Scottish Inns Hilton canopy Conrad Curio Collection DoubleTree Embassy Suites Graduate Hampton Hilton Garden Inn Hilton Grand Vacations Hilton Home2 Suites Homewood Suites tru Waldorf Astoria Huazhu Deutsche Hospitality Zleep Hyatt Alila ALG Andaz Destination Grand Hyatt Hyatt Hyatt Centric Hyatt House Hyatt Place Hyatt Regency Hyatt Zilara / Hyatt Ziva JdV by Hyatt Park Hyatt Unbound Collection Graduate IHG ANA Avid Candlewood Suites Crowne Plaza Even Holiday Inn Holiday Inn Express Hotel Indigo InterContinental Kimpton Regent Staybridge Suites Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) Ginger Taj Vivanta ITC Hotels Fortune ITC WelcomHotels Jinjiang 7 Days Inn Jin Jiang Hotels Jinjiang Inn Louvre Hotels Metropolo Vienna Radisson (outside North America) PPHE Hotel Group Rezidor Hotel Group Marriott ( list ) Luxury Bulgari EDITION JW Marriott The Luxury Collection Ritz-Carlton St. Regis W Premium Autograph Collection Delta Design Gaylord Le Méridien Marriott Conference Centers Executive Apartments Golf Marriott Vacation Club Grand Residences Renaissance Sheraton Tribute Westin Select AC Aloft Courtyard Element Fairfield Four Points Moxy Protea Residence Inn SpringHill TownePlace Okura Nikko Hotel JAL Nikko Okura Shangri-La Kerry Shangri-La Traders Sonesta Red Lion Hotels Americas Best Value Inns Canadas Best Value Inns GuestHouse Hotel RL Knights Inn Red Lion Hotels Red Lion Inn & Suites Settle Inn 3 Palms Hotels & Resorts America's Best Inns Country Hearth Inns & Suites Jameson Inn Lexington Hotels & Inns Wyndham AmericInn Baymont Days Inn Dolce Hawthorn Howard Johnson's La Quinta Microtel Ramada Super 8 Travelodge TRYP Wingate Wyndham Wyndham Garden Wyndham Grand Others A&O Ace Aerowisata Aitken Spence Aman Amaya APA Coast Apex Aqua-Aston Archipelago The Ascott Limited Azerai Azimut Bahia Principe B&B Beaches Belmond Budget Host Budget Suites of America Cachet Canad Inns Canalta Carlton Center Parcs Europe Center Parcs UK and Ireland Ceylon Cheval Blanc Cinnamon citizenM Citrus Club Med Club Quarters Cobblestone COMO Continental Cordis / Langham Corinthia Couples Dalata Dan Dedica Anthology Disney Experiences Dorsett Drury Dusit easyHotel ExecuStay Extended Stay America Fiesta Inn Four Seasons Go Grecotel Hard Rock / Reverb Hoshino Hotel Sogo Iberostar InTown Suites / Uptown Suites Isrotel Jetwing Symphony Jumeirah Kuriftu The Leading Hotels of

4970-423: Was higher, but the cabins had electricity, indoor bathrooms, and occasionally a private garage or carport. They were arranged in attractive clusters or a U-shape. Often, these camps were part of a larger complex containing a filling station, a café, and sometimes a convenience store. Facilities like the Rising Sun Auto Camp in Glacier National Park and Blue Bonnet Court in Texas were "mom-and-pop" facilities on

5041-405: Was not an issue in an era where the major highways became the main street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car dealerships, fuel stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants, theaters, and countless other small roadside businesses. The automobile brought mobility and the motel could appear anywhere on

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