"If we're seen showing greater concern for power, prestige, and costs than for the customer and the values we profess, then we forfeit belief and trust along with our goal of trying to be the best". When Sharp opened a modest motor hotel in Toronto in 1961 and called it the Four Seasons, he was simply a builder making a real estate play.
The family shifted into the hotel business in 1957, opening the world's first motor hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
In its heyday, Howard Johnson's was a hugely successful chain of motor hotels and restaurants, famous for its 28 flavours of ice cream.
By the 1990s, these motor-hotels were largely redundant, with many bulldozed to make way for bland condominiums.
Hailey made a career with scrupulously researched dramas of workplaces, set in hotels (Hotel), airports (Airport) and the motor industry (Wheels).
Although youth unemployment has been exacerbated by the crash of 2008, it first emerged as a problem in 2004 as the sectors that tend to employ young people – shops, motor trade, hotels and restaurants – began to shed staff.
Cost: $2,995 per person, double occupancy, including round-trip transatlantic air fare, all travel within Europe by air-conditioned motor coach, hotels, museum admission fees and all meals except lunches and two evening meals.
$4,600 at Virginia International; $5,000 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, including hotel.
Bormann also commissioned the construction of barracks for the SS guards, roads and footpaths, garages for motor vehicles, a hotel for guests, accommodation for staff, and other amenities.
When the bowling ends, he usually heads back to his motor home or to the hotel — especially when traveling with his wife, Paige Pennington, and their 3-year-old daughter, Rebecca.
Under the definitive agreement, expected to be completed before year-end, Prime Motor Inns will acquire the chain's 125 motor lodges and hotels, 375 franchised motor lodges and 199 franchised restaurants.
