Tag: Hotels
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Something Old Something New—A history of hospitality When Washington State College introduced its hospitality program in
1932, no one had yet imagined an airport hotel, a drive-through
restaurant, a convention center, or the boom of international travel.
Eighty years later, as the industry grows in new and unexpected ways,
the School of Hospitality sends its graduates out to meet its evolving
needs.
Summer 2013
Categories: Business
Tags: Hotel management, Hospitality, Hotels, Restaurants
Hotel at the Top
Spring 2009
Pioneer James “Cashup” Davis dreamed big. At a time when most Washington settlers were carving farms out of the Palouse, he was so awed with the panoramic views of the Palouse from Steptoe Butte, he decided to build a hotel at the top.
Davis’s...
Categories: Washington state history, History
Tags: Palouse, Hotels
A home for hotel history
Summer 2008
One day in the late 1920s, hoteliers Severt W. Thurston and
Frank Dupar met by chance in a coffee shop in Yakima, Washington.
Unbeknownst to one another, each had gone to Yakima to make
separate hotel deals. But by the time they parted company tha...
Categories: History
Tags: Hotel management, Hotels
Putting on the Ritz: American management methods meet European hotellerie
Winter 2003
The child of Swiss peasants, no one would have expected Cesar Ritz to
become the hotelier of kings. But then, who would have expected WSU to
add American business management methods to the fine art of European
hotellerie in the town where Ritz got his start?
Categories: Business
Tags: Hotels, Hotel management
Overseeing the Davenport Hotel with an appreciation for history
Winter 2002
"It's wonderful to be a
part of an environment where all you have to do is make people
happy and make them comfortable." —Lynnelle
Hull Caudill Being part of something as elegant and historical as the
Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane...
Categories: Business, Alumni
Tags: Spokane, Hotels, Hotel management