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Recommended resources on hotels and other public facilities, past and present, providing location info for print resources and links for digital resources.

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Hospitality degree programs, according to the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration (ACPHA-CAHM), and according to Hospitality 1st industry news blog

American Hotel & Lodging Association

Hospitality Financial & Technical Professionals' Research Center

Hospitality.Net (International news and industry resources)

Hotel,” and “Caravanserai,” Oxford Art Online

McDonough, Brian, Building type basics for hospitality facilities, John Wiley & Sons, TX911.2B84 2001

Rhoads, Marcela Abadi, Applying the ADA: designing for the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for accessible design in multiple building types, Wiley, 2013 (via Ebook Central)

STR (Industry data provider offers a listing of hospitality organizations)

Zimmerman, Mike, “Hospitality giants: towering accomplishments,” Interior design, October 2017, p.129-130, 132,134, 136, 138, 140, 142, 144 (Largest hospitality interior design firms)

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Hotels & public accommodations A-Z

Airbnb (“Find a place to stay”)

Forino, Imma, “Airbnb,” Abitare, March 2012, p.122-125

Living architecture (“Holidays in modern architecture”)

"Artek, ein Paradies für Kinder," Bauwelt, April 28, 2000 (Theme issue on the Soviet resort Artek, on the Caspian Sea)

Maynard, W. Barksdale, “Architecture and Culture in the Earliest Summer Camps,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring 1999, p.3-29

Paris, Leslie, Children's Nature: the rise of the American summer camp, NYU Press, 2008 (via Ebook Central)

Sheppard, Lola, “Flipping the script: what does camping have to do with cities?,” Architect, December 2015, p.33

TrailSpace (“Outdoor gear reviews”)

Barker, Thomas & Marjie Britz, Jokers Wild: legalized gambling in the twenty-first century, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 (via Ebook Central)

Center for Gaming Research (U. of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Daniel, Tom, “Nothing serious,” Log, #27, Winter/Spring 2013, p.21-30 (on “new buildings, especially casinos, for the Cotai area of Macau”)

Keaton, Brooke, Casino design: the sneaky tricks that make you spend more," Casino.org, July 21, 2020 (blog post)

O’Brien, James, “Rome in a day: corporate development practices and the role of professional designers,” Journal of Architectural Education, November 2000, p.68-79

Venturi, Robert, et al, Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, Office-NA735 .L3 V4 1972

Vinegar, Aron & Michael J. Golec, Relearning from Las Vegas, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Destination Marketing Association International

Meeting Professionals International

Meetings & Conventions (Industry news)

International Association of Conference Centers

Uffelen, Chris van, Convention centers, Braun Publishing, NA6880 .U23 C767 2012

Chon, Kaye Sung & Arthur Asa Berger, Ocean travel and cruising: a cultural analysis, Taylor & Francis, 2012 

Delgado, Martin, et al. “Destination whatever: touring the cruise industry of the Caribbean,” Harvard Design Magazine, 2014, #39, p.10-21

Dowling, Ross K., Cruise Ship Tourism, CABI, 2006 (via Ebook Central)

Hart, Douglas, “Sociability and ‘separate spheres’ on the North Atlantic,” Journal of Social History, Fall 2010, p.189-212 (via JSTOR)

Pearman, Hugh, “City at sea,” RIBA Journal, February 2010, p.30-36

 

Fahr-Becker, Gabriele, Ryokan: a Japanese tradition, Könemann, DS821 .F34 2001

Berger, Molly W., Hotel dreams luxury, technology, and urban ambition in America, 1829-1929, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Hotel,” and “Caravanserai,” Oxford Art Online

Keys, Leslee F., Hotel Ponce de Leon: the rise, fall, and rebirth of Flagler’s gilded age palace, University of Florida Press, 2015 (via Ebook Central)

Pearman, Hugh, “A thousand and one nights: a romp through the history of hotel typology,” RIBA Journal, February 2010, p.38-40, 42

The American Hotel,” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol.25, 2005 (PDF via Jstor) (Theme issue)

Donzel, Catherine, et al, Grand American Hotels, Vendome, NA7840 .D6613 1989

Koch, Alexander, Hotels, Restaurants, Café- und Barräume, A. Koch, NA7800.K58

"Hotels," Architectural Record, May 1957 (Building types study)

"Hotels," Architectural Record, February 1976 (Building types study)

"Hotels," Architectural Review, October 1960 (Theme issue)

Muto, Shoichi, Las Vegas: 16 hotel & casinos, 5 theme restaurants, Shotenkenchiku-sha, NK2195.H6 M87 1997

"The Next Wave of Hospitality Design," Interior Design, October 1997 (Theme issue)

Rutes, Walter A. & Richard H. Penner, Hotel planning and design, Whitney Library of Design, NA7800 .R87 1985

"Special Hotels for Special Places," Architectural Record, June 1984 (Building types study)

Wharton, Annabel Jane, Building the cold war: Hilton International hotels and modern architecture, University of Chicago, NA7850.M628 W48 2001

"Boutique Hotels," Architectural Record, February 2000 (Building types study)

Brody, Derrick, Latest trends in hotel industry, Global Media, 2009 (via Ebook Central)

Chang, Gary, Hotel as home: the art of living on the road, Princeton Architectural Press, NK2195.H6 C53 2006

Cuito, Aurora (editor), Hotels: designer & design, Kliczkowski, NA7800 .H67 2001

“The Dream hotel,” Metropolis, April 2012, p.56-67

“The Hotel issue,” Interiors, June 2000 (Theme issue)

Hotel Online (Industry news)

“Hotels,” Domus, July/August, 2011 (Theme issue)

Hotels & Restaurants,” Arch Daily

International Hotel & Restaurant Association

Makovsky, Paul, “Eco innkeepers,” Metropolis, September 2008, p.134-140, 167

Pizzi, Mia & Marco Biagi, “Hotels: things have changed,” Abitare, November 2006, p.140-[155]

Pizzi, Mia, “Nine hotels scattered around the world,” Abitare, September 2010, p.150-169

Plunkett, Drew, Detail in contemporary hotel design, Laurence King, NK2195 .H6 P59 2013

Wilkinson, Tom, “Typology hotel,” Architectural Review, July/August 2017, p.104-113

 

… The largest hotel chains in the world, as of 2017, are: Wyndham Hotel Group, Choice Hotels International (Quality Inn, Comfort Inn, Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge, etc.), Marriot InternationalInterContinental Hotels Group (Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, etc.), Hilton WorldwideAccorHotels(Sofitel, Novotel, Motel 6, etc.), and Best Western Hotels [See: “The largest hotel chains in the world,” WorldAtlas.com, 2017]

Motel Americana (Elaborate personal page of motel-related kitsch)

"Motor Hotels," Architectural Record, April 1958

"Motor Hotels," Architectural Record, July 1960

Wood, Andrew, “The rise and fall of the great American motel,” Smithsonian.com, June 2017

Wyndham Hotel Group (including Ramada Worldwide, Days Inn, Super 8, Howard Johnson, Travelodge, etc.)

Jodidio, Philip, Nomadic homes: architecture on the move, Taschen, NA8480 .J627 2017

Kane, Ted & Rick Miller, Polar inertia: migrating urban systems, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, HN80 .L7 K36 2007

Krakhmalnikov, Eduard, “The trailer park that became a city,” Minnesota History, Winter 2017-18, p.314-324 (via JSTOR)

Seonwook, Kim & Pyo Miyoung, Mobile architecture: construction and design manual, NA2545 .P5 A29 2012 v.4

Sandu Publishing (editors), New portable architecture, Sandu, Promopress, NA8480 .N486 2014

Trailer Life (Published by Good Sam Enterprises)

Twitchell, James, Winnebago nation: the RV in American culture, Columbia University Press, 2014 (via Ebook Central)

 

 

Curry, Andrew, “The rebirth of a Nazi resort,” Architect, November 2017, p.121-122, 124-26, 128-31

Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière, Ah, wilderness!: resort architecture in the Thousand Islands, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, NA7850.C22 T4 2004

"Four Resort Hotels," Architectural Record, October 1977 (Building types study)

Gray, Fred, Designing the seaside: architecture, society and nature, Reaktion, NA7576.G73 2006

Hibbard, Don, Designing paradise: the allure of the Hawaiian Resort, Princeton Architectural Press, NA7820.H53 2006

"International Resorts," Architectural Record, September 1978 (Building types study)

Kiger, Patrick J., “Buy the seaside,” Urban Land, May/June 2016, p.62-68

"Resort Hotels: Symbol and Association in Their Design," Architectural Record, December 1969

“Resortrends,” Urban Land, February 2009 (Theme issue)

“Bath & spa,” Dwell, Winter 2013 (Theme issue)

Connell, John, Medical tourism, CABI, 2011 (via Ebook Central)

Farameh, Patrice & Martin Nicholas Kunz, Luxury hotels: spa & wellness, Tenues Publishing Group. NK2195.H6 L89 2006

“Fuente Santa Spa,” Croquis, 2016, #184, p.112-117 (Competition)

 “Hotels & spas,” A+U, February 2002 (Theme issue)

Ikeuchi, “The Cosmology of the bath: touring Europe’s hot spring resorts,” a feature in several issues of Space Design magazine: 1988: June, September-December, 1989: February-April.

Koren, Undesigning the Bath, GT2845 .K67 1996

Kramer, Sibylle, Bath & spa, Thames & Hudson, NA7010 .K73 2008

Olin, Laurie, “Algerian Journal: among the ruins of provincial Rome,” SiteLINES, Spring 2016, p.7-11

Rosenbaum, Adam T., “Grounded modernity in the Bavarian Alps: the Reichenhall spa culture at the turn of the twentieth century,” Central European History, March 2014, p.30-53

“Wellness,” Domus, November 2008 (Theme issue)

Klingmann, Anna, Brandscapes: architecture in the experience economy, MIT Press, NA2540 .K51 2007

Gassan, Richard H., “Tourists and the city: New York's first tourist era, 1820-1840,” Winterthur Portfolio, Summer/Autumn 2010, p.221-246

Harrison, Julia D., Being a tourist: finding meaning in pleasure travel, UBC Press, 2003 (via Ebook Central) 

Judd, Dennis R. (editor), The infrastructure of play: building the tourist city, Routledge, 2015 (via Ebook Central) 

Deupi, Victor & Jean-François Lejeune, "Tropicality, tourism, and leisure" in, Cuban modernism : mid-century architecture 1940-1970, Birkhäuser, NA803 .D48 2021

Pearce, Philip L., Tourist Behaviour: Themes and Conceptual Schemes, Channel View Publications, 2005 (via Ebook Central)

Shaw, Gareth & Allan M. Williams, Tourism and Tourism Spaces, SAGE Publications, 2004 (via Ebook Central)

Singh, S., et al., Tourism in Destination Communities, CABI, 2003 (via Ebook Central)

Travel & Tourism Research Association

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