motel is a hotel designed for motorists and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering the dictionary after World War II, the word motel , was created as a "motor hotel" portmanteau contraction, derived from Milestone Mo-Tel of San Luis Obispo, California (now called Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), built in 1925. The term originally refers to a type of hotel consisting of a single connected building whose doors overlook the parking lot and in some circumstances, a public area or a series of small cabins with public parking. The motel is often owned individually, although the chain motel does exist.
When major road systems were developed in the 1920s, long-haul travel became more common, and the need for cheap and accessible overnight accommodation near the main routes led to the development of motel concepts. The motel culminated in popularity in the 1960s with a car ride, only to decline in response to competition from the new hotel chain becoming commonplace at the intersection of highways as traffic passed to a newly built highway. Some historic motels are listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.
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Architecture
The motel differs from the hotel in their location along the highway, as opposed to the urban core favored by the hotel, and their orientation to the outside (in contrast to hotels, whose doors usually face the interior corridor). The motel is about the same as the definition of including a parking lot, while older hotels are usually not built with car parking in mind.
Due to their low-rise buildings, the number of rooms that would suit a certain amount of land is low compared to the high-rise urban hotels that grow around the train station. This is not a problem in an era where major highways are the main roads in every town along the roads and cheap land on the edge of the city can be developed with motels, car dealers, gas stations, log yards, amusement parks, roadside visitors, in, theater, and many other small roadside businesses. Cars carry mobility and motels can appear anywhere on a large network of two-lane highways.
Layout
Motels are usually built in "I" -, "L" -, or "U" layouts that include guest rooms; office manager attached; small receipts; and in some cases, small restaurants and swimming pools. A motel is usually one-storey with rooms that open directly into the parking lot, making it easy to unpack the suitcase from the vehicle. The second story, if any, will be facing the balcony served by several stairs.
The postwar motels, especially in the early 1950s through the late 1960s, sought more visual differences, often displaying interesting colorful neon signs that used themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery to cowboys and Indians up to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic iconography era. The US 66 route is the most popular example of the "neon era". Many of these signs remain in use today.
Room type
In some motels, some rooms will be more spacious and contain a small kitchen or apartment-like facilities; these rooms are marketed at a higher price as "efficiency" because the inhabitants can prepare their own food instead of the cost of eating all the food in the restaurant. Rooms with connecting doors (so two standard rooms can be combined into one bigger room) also typically show up in hotels and motels. Some motels (especially in Niagara Falls, Ontario, where strips of motels extending from Lundy's Lane to waterfalls have long been marketed for newlyweds) will offer a "honeymoon suite" with additional amenities such as a whirlpool bath.
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History
The first camp for automotive travelers was built in the late 1910s. Before that, tourists who can not afford to stay in the hotel sleep in their cars or put up tents in the fields along the way. This is called automatic camp. The modern camps of the 1920s and 1930s provide running water, picnic grounds, and toilet facilities.
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The camps automatically preceded the motel for several years, founded in the 1920s as a primitive city camp site where travelers set up their own tents. As demand increases, commercial camps seek profits slowly flee to public camps.
Until the first travel trailers were available in the 1930s, automotive travelers adapted their cars by adding beds, emergency kitchens and roof decks. The next step of the travel trailer is the camp cabin, a group of primitive but permanent structures. During the Great Depression, landowners whose properties faced the highway built a cabin to convert unprofitable land into earnings; some of the tourist houses opened. Buildings (usually one floor) for roadside motels or cabin huts are quick and simple to build, with plans and instructions available in guide magazines and builders.
The expansion of the road network largely continues through depression as the government seeks to create jobs, but the roadside cabin camps are primitive, basically just camp cars with small cabins instead of tents.
The 1935 City Directory for San Diego, California, lists the "motels" -the type of accommodation below the tourist camp. One could initially stay in depressed era cabin camps for less than a dollar per night but little comforts were few and far between.
Tourists seeking modern facilities will soon find them in court and tourism courts. The price is higher but the cabin has electricity, an indoor bathroom, and sometimes a private garage or carport. They are arranged in interesting groups or U-shapes. Often, these camps are part of a larger complex containing gas stations, cafes, and sometimes department stores. Facilities like Rising Sun Auto Camp at Glacier National Park and Blue Bonnet Court in Texas are the same mom-and-pop facilities in the suburbs as unique as their owners. The automotive camps continued to be popular for many years. Depression and after World War II, their popularity finally began to diminish with rising land costs and changes in consumer demand.
In contrast, although they remain small independent operators, the motel is rapidly adopting a more homogeneous appearance and designed from scratch to serve pure riders.
Tourist home
In the city, tourist houses are private residence advertising rooms for car travelers. Unlike boarding houses, guests in tourist homes are usually just passing by. In the southwestern United States, a handful of tourist houses were opened by African-Americans as early as the Great Depression for lack of food or lodging for color travelers in Jim Crow conditions of the era.
There are things money can not buy on Route 66. Between Chicago and Los Angeles you can not rent a room if you're tired after a long trip. You can not sit in restaurants or restaurants or buy food no matter how much money you have. You can not find a place to answer natural calls even with allowance... if you are a colored person traveling on Route 66 in the 1940s and '50s.
The Negro Motorist Green Book (1936-64) lists lodging, restaurants, gas stations, liquor stores, beauty salons and beauty salons without any racial constraints; the smaller Directory of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses in the United States (1939, US Travel Agency) specializes in accommodation. The separation of US tourist accommodation will be legally terminated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and by a court ruling at The Heart of Atlanta Motel v. The United States affirms that the congressional power over inter-state trade extends to local regulations of incidents (such as racial discrimination in a motel serving sub-interstate) that substantially and damagingly affects the trade. Initial motel
The term "motel" comes from the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, originally called Milestone Mo-Tel, built in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (although some hotels with similar architecture existed since at least 1915). In recognition of a name for his hotel, Heineman was abbreviated to the hotel boutique to mo-tel after he could not enter the words "Milestone Motor Hotel" on his roof. Many other businesses follow in his footsteps and start building his own car camp.
Combining individual cabins from tourism courts under one roof produces a motor court or motor hotel. Some motor courts began to call themselves motels, a term coined in 1926. Many of these early motels were still popular and operating, as in the case of 3V Tourist Court in St. Petersburg. Francisville, Louisiana, was built in 1938..
During the Great Depression, the traveling people (including business travelers and peddlers) were under pressure to manage travel expenses by driving instead of rail and staying in new motels and roadside courts rather than more expensive central hotels where bell captains, porters, and other personnel all expect a tip for service.
In the 1940s, most of the construction land was almost stopped because workers, fuel, rubber, and transportation were withdrawn from civilian use for war effort. What little construction is occurring is usually near a military base where every decent hut is pressed to serve the soldiers of their homes and families.
Post-war 1950s will lead the building boom on a large scale. In 1947, there will be about 22,000 motor courts operating in the US alone; a typical 50-room motel of that era cost $ 3,000 per room in the initial construction cost, compared to $ 12,000 per room for the construction of a metropolitan city hotel. By 1950 there would be 50,000 motels serving half of the 22 million US tourists; a year later the motel will surpass the hotel in consumer demand. The industry peaked in 1964 with 61,000 properties and fell to 16,000 properties in 2012.
Many motels start advertising with colorful neon signs that they have "air conditioning" (the initial term for "air conditioning") during hot summers or "heated by steam" during cold winters. Some newly used novelty architectures such as wigwams or teepees or rail cars are disabled to create the Red Caboose Motel where every cabin "Caboose Motel" or "Caboose Inn" is a private train car.
Expansion
The 1950s and 1960s were the top motel industries in the United States and Canada. When the old mom-and-pop motor hotel started adding new facilities like pool or color TV (luxurious in the 1960s), the motel was built with a wild and impressive design. The in-room gimmick like a coin-operated Magic Fingers berth was popular; introduced in 1958, was largely removed in the 1970s due to the vandalism of the coin box. American Hotel Association (which offered Universal Credit Card in 1953 as a pioneer of modern American Express card) to American Hotel & amp; Motel Association in 1963.
Since many motels compete for their place on busy roads, the beachfront motel instantly becomes a success. In the major coastal cities of Jacksonville, Florida, Miami, Florida, and Ocean City, Maryland, the rows of colorful motels like Castaways, in various shapes and sizes, are commonplace.
Manual
The original motel is a small, locally owned business that grows around two lane roads which is the main street in every town along the way. As independent, the quality of accommodation varies from one hut to another; while a small percentage of this property is checked or assessed by the American Automobile Association and the Canadian Automobile Association (which has published maps and directories of restaurant and room book tours since 1917), there is no consistent standard behind the "cleaned for your protection" banner. There is no real access to national advertising for local motels and no national network to facilitate bookings in distant cities.
The main road to the big cities becomes a sea of ​​orange or red neon that proclaims VACANCY (and then C O L O R TV, air conditioning or swimming pool) as competing operators compete for valuable visibility on the busy highways. Other places to advertise are local tourist bureaus and postcards provided for free use by clients.
Ratings in the Motor Directory Court and Cottage by the American Automobile Association are just one of the many beliefs sought by independent motels of the era. Regional guidelines (such as The Official Florida Guide by A. Lowell Hunt or Approved Travelers Motor Courts ) and food/lodging guidebooks published by restaurant reviewers Duncan Hines ( Adventures in Good Eating , 1936 and Lodging for a Night , 1938) also appreciated the support.
Referral chain
The chain of referrals at the Inn originated in the early 1930s, initially serving to promote the cabin and tourism courts. As the forerunner of the modern model "chain franchise", the referral chain is a group of independent motel owners where every member of the inn will voluntarily meet a set of standards and each property will promote the other. Each property will proudly display the group name next to hers.
United Motor Courts, founded in 1933 by a group of motel owners in the southwest US, published guidebooks until the early 1950s. A splinter from the now defunct group, the Quality Court, began as a reference chain in 1941, but was changed to a franchise operation (Quality Inn) in the 1960s. Budget Hosts and Best Value Inn are also referral chains.
Best Western (1946) is a similar referral chain of independent western US motels. It still operates as a member-owned chain, although modern Best Western operations have many characteristics (such as centralized purchasing and reservation systems) of the next franchise system.
Chain of ownership
The earliest motel chain, an exclusive brand for many properties built with common architecture, was born in the 1930s. The first is a chain of ownership, where a small group of people own and operate all motels under the same brand.
The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, founded in 1929 in East Waco, Texas, was the first network with seven motor courts in 1936 and over twenty in 1955. With Simmons furnishings, Beautyrest mattresses on every bed, and phones in every room, Alamo Plaza rooms are marketed as "tourist apartments" under the slogan "Catering for those who care."
In 1935, building contractor Scott King opened King's Motor Court in San Diego, California, renamed the original Travelodge property in 1939 after building two dozen simple motel-style properties within five years on behalf of various investors. He combined and expanded the entire chain under the TraveLodge banner after 1946.
In 1937, Harlan Sanders opened a motel and restaurant as Sanders Court and Cafà ©  © next to a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky; the second location opened in Asheville, North Carolina, but the expansion as a chain motel is not pursued further.
Franchise chain
In 1951, housing developer Kemmons Wilson returned to Memphis, Tennessee was disappointed by the motel encountered on a family trip to Washington, DC In every city, the rooms vary from well-kept to dirty, some have swimming pools, no restaurant in a mean place a few miles driving to buy dinner, and (while the room itself is $ 8 to $ 10) the motor court charged a surcharge of $ 2 per child, substantially increasing the cost of a family holiday. He will build his own motel at 4941 Summer Avenue (US 70) on the main highway (US $ 70) from Memphis to Nashville, adopting the name of the 1942 Holiday Inn movie about the fictional lodge alone. open on public holidays. Each new Holiday Inn will have a TV, air conditioning, a restaurant and a swimming pool; all will meet the standard length list to get guests in Memphis to have the same experience as someone in Daytona Beach, Florida or Akron, Ohio. Originally a motel chain, Holiday Inn first implemented a national room reservation system designed by IBM in 1965 and opened its location to 1000 in 1968.
In 1954, a 60-room motor hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona, was opened as the first Ramada (Spanish for "shady retreat"). The Twin Bridges Motor Hotel, founded in 1957 near Washington, D.C. as a member of Quality Courts, became the first Marriott in 1959, evolving from motel to hotel in 1962.
For individual motel owners, the franchise chain provides an automated centralized reservation system and a nationally recognized brand that assures consumers that the rooms and amenities meet consistent minimum standards. This comes at a cost; franchise fees, marketing costs, booking fees, and royalty fees are not reduced during the economic recession, leaving most of the business risks with the franchisee while the franchise company makes a profit. Some franchise contracts limit the ability of franchisees to sell business as business continuity or leave a franchise group without penalty.
For the chain, the franchise model allows for higher levels of product standardization and quality control than is possible as a reference chain model while allowing expansion beyond the maximum practical size of a well-held ownership chain.
In some cases, loose ownership chains (such as Travelodge) and referral chains (such as the Quality Court, established in 1939 by seven motel operators as a nonprofit referral system) were transformed into a franchise system.
The Quality Court (1939) and The Best Western Motels (1946) were originally a reference chain and were largely marketed together (because the Mutu Court was largely east of the Mississippi River) until the 1960s. Both build national supply chains and temporary reservation systems aggressively remove properties that do not meet minimum standards. In 1963, their paths were distorted. The Quality Court has become a Quality Inn, leaving the previous cooperative structure to become a nonprofit company, using shareholder capital to build all the locations owned by the company, and obliging its members to become franchisees, while Best Western retains the status of its original members as a marketing co-op.
The freeway era
With the introduction of chains, independent motels began to decline. The emergence of highways that cross existing highways (such as the Interstate Toll Road System in the US) caused older motels to move away from new roads to be dormant because they lost customers to motel networks built along the new road.
Some roadside towns are abandoned. Amboy, California (population 700) has grown as a stopover Route 66 route and will decline with the highway when the opening of Interstate 40 in 1973 passed the village completely. Ghost town and Roy Motel and Cafà © in 1938 were left to rot for years and used by filmmakers in a state of decay and deterioration.
Even the 1952 Holiday Inn Hotel Courts in Memphis closed in 1973 and was eventually dismantled, as the I-40 passed US 70 and the chain positioned itself as a medium-price hotel brand. The Twin Bridges Marriott was demolished for the park in 1990.
Many independent 1950s motels will remain in operation, often sold to new owners or renamed, but continue to decline steadily as clients lose chains. Often the design of the building, traditionally little more than a row of long individual bedrooms with outside corridors and no kitchen or dining room, leaves it incompatible with other destinations.
Market segmentation
In the 1970s and 1980s independent motels lost ground due to chains like Motel 6 and Ramada, the existing roadside sites were getting by the highway, and the development of motel chains caused the run of motels and hotels.
While family-owned motels with at least five rooms can still be found, especially along older highways, this is forced to compete with the proliferation of the Limited Service Economy chain. ELS hotels usually do not offer cooked food or mixed drinks; they may offer a very limited selection of continental breakfast foods but do not have a restaurant, bar or room service.
Journey's End Corporation (established in 1978 in Belleville, Ontario) built a two-story hotel building with no on-site facilities to compete instantly in price with existing motels. The rooms are comparable to a good hotel but no pool, restaurant, health club, or conference center. There is no room service and generic architectural design that varies among the cities. The chain is targeting "low-budget business travelers looking for something in between a full-service luxury hotel and a clean but simple roadside inn," but mostly attracts individual travelers from small towns that traditionally support small roadside motels.
The international chain quickly followed this same pattern. Choice Hotels created the Comfort Inn as a limited service economic brand in 1982. The new limited service brand of existing franchise owners provides market segmentation; using different trademarks and brands, major hotel chains can build new limited service properties near airports and highways without damaging existing mid-priced brands. The creation of new brands also allows the chain to avoid the minimum contractual distance protection between individual hotel owners in the same chain. Franchisors place several properties under different brands on the same highway exit, leading to a decrease in income for individual franchises. The entry of newly created brands became a key factor in the explosion in new construction that ultimately led to market saturation.
In the 1990s, Motel 6 and Super 8 were built with corridors inside (so nominally a hotel) while other motel brands (including Ramada and Holiday Inn) have become middle-priced hotel chains. Some individual franchises build new hotels with modern facilities beside or at their former Holiday Inn motels; in 2010 a middle-class hotel with indoor pool is the standard needed to remain a Holiday Inn.
Decline
In many once-prime locations, independent motels that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s were being squeezed in the 1980s as they were forced to compete with growing chains with far larger rooms in each property. Many are stranded on the main two-lane highway that has been bypassed by the highway or rejected because the original owner retired and the next owner ignored the maintenance of the building and rooms. Since this is a low-end property even in their heyday, most now show their age.
In Canada, this pattern is most visible in the densely populated Windsor-Quebec Corridor, especially urban locations such as the Kingston Road Toronto motel pathway which is bypassed by the completed Highway 401, and part of Highway 7 between Modeland Road and Airport Road known as " Golden Mile "to a large number of motels and restaurants (as well as points of interest such as Sarnia Airport and Hiawatha Racetrack and Waterpark) passed by Highway 402. The motel's decline is also found in an awkward village location earlier on the main road. Many remote Trans-Canada roads remain unaddressed by toll roads and some independent motels survive.
In the US, the Interstate Highway System passes US Highways across the US. The most notable example is the complete removal of Route 66 from the US highway system in 1985 after being skipped (mostly by Interstate 40). U.S. 66 is very problematic because the old route number is often transferred to a new road as soon as a shortcut is built, while restrictions on Licensing of Highways leave the existing property without the means to get a sign on the newly built Interstate. Some motels are destroyed, converted into private homes, or used as storage space while others are left slowly falling apart.
In many cities, maintenance and renovation of existing properties will cease once the word exits that the existing highway is the target of the proposed shortcut; This decrease will only accelerate after the new road is opened. Attempts by owners to compete for some of the remaining clients on the road through which lowering prices usually only exacerbate the downturn by not leaving funds to invest in improving or maintaining the property properly; receiving clients who previously turned away also caused crime problems in cities.
In 1976, the term "cockroach motel" was well established; slogan for the Black Flag "Roach Motel" trap brand will be paraphrased as "they check in, but they do not check" to refer to this declining property.
In declining urban areas (such as Kingston Road in Toronto, or some districts along Van Buren Street in Phoenix, largely bypassed as a route through to California by Interstate 10), the low-end motels left over from the era of two-lane highways are frequent regarded as a slum for homelessness, prostitution, and drugs as empty rooms in the area passed by now often hired (and in some cases acquired directly) by social service agencies to accommodate refugees, abuse victims, and families awaiting social housing. By contrast, some areas that were only roadside edges in the 1950s now became valuable urban land where the original structure was being removed through gentrification and land used for other purposes. The Toronto Lake Shore Boulevard line on Etobicoke is bulldozed for condominiums.
In some cases, historic properties have been allowed to decay slowly. The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which (as Milestone Motor Hotel) was the first to use the name "motel", was incomplete with what still stood on the left up and fenced on the side of the US 101 Route; the 2002 restoration proposal never worked.
Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts, the first motel chain, is sold in pieces when the original owner retires. Most of the previous locations on the US system highway have suffered a setback that can not be repaired or destroyed. One of the 1941 properties on the 190 US Route in Baton Rouge remains open with its now lost Alamo Plaza Restaurant, its pool filled, its original color scheme painted, its front desk behind bulletproof glass, and its rooms are full of cockroaches and pests. A magnet for criminal activity, police are called every day. Other Alamo sites in Chattanooga, Memphis and Dallas have just been destroyed.
The American Hotel and Motel Association removed the 'motel' from its name in 2000, becoming an American Hotel and Lodging Association. The Association feels that the term 'lodging' more accurately reflects the different types of different style hotels, including luxury hotels and boutiques, suites, inns, budget, and long-stay hotels.
Modernization
At the end of the 20th century, the majority of motels in the United States were under the ownership of people of Indian descent, notably Gujarat as the original "mom and pop" owners who retired from the motel industry and sold their properties. However, some families still keep their motels, and to this day, one can find a motel owned by the same family that built and run it originally (ie Maples Motel in Sandusky, Ohio) with the next generation continuing the family business.
The facilities offered are also changing, with the motels that once-called color television as luxury now emphasizes wireless Internet, flat-screen television, pay-per-view or in-room movies, microwave ovens and minibar refrigerators in rooms that can be booked online using credit cards and secure against intruders with key cards that expire as soon as the client checks out. Many independent motels add the facility only to stay in competition with the franchise chain, which is taking an increasing market share. Long term independent motels that join the existing low-end chain to remain eligible to be known as "conversion" franchises; this does not use the standard architecture that originally defined many franchise brands.
While many former chain motels leave low-end markets to middle-class franchise hotels, a handful of national franchise brands (Econo Lodge, Travelodge, Knights Inn and M-Star's lowest-rated Magnuson Hotel) remain available to existing motel owners with a motor- up-to-the-original space.
Most of these companies, previously called motels, may still look like motels but are now called hotels, inns, or inns.
Revitalization and preservation
In the early to mid-2000s, much of the original 1950s roadside infrastructure on the now overpassed US highway had fallen into decline or been demolished for development. The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Wildwoods Shore motel district of New Jersey in the list of the Hottest Historic Places in America in 2006 and includes Historic Route 66 Motels from Illinois to California on the 2007 list.
Preservationists have attempted to register endangered property on various federal or state historic registries, although in many cases historic lists give little or no protection from change or demolition.
The Oakleigh Motel in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, built using Googie architecture during the 1956 Summer Olympics as one of the first motels in the state, was added to the Victoria Heritage List in 2009. The building was gutted by developers in 2010 for consecutive development home; only the outer shell remains true.
The Aztec Motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico (built in 1932) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and is listed on the New Mexico Cultural Properties Listing as the oldest continuously operating on Route 66 motels in New Mexico. It was destroyed in 2011. While the Karang Court Motel list is near St. Louis, Missouri, on the National Register of Historic Places failed to prevent the demolition of 1995, one of the cabins survived as part of an exhibition at the Transport Museum after being painstakingly dismantled by volunteers for relocation.
AS. Route 66
The difficulty of Route 66, which was removed from the US Highway System in 1985 turned places like Glenrio, Texas and Amboy, California into a ghost town overnight, attracting public attention. The Route 66 Association, built on the first 1987 associate model of Angel Delgadillo in Seligman, Arizona, has advocated the preservation and recovery of roadside motels, businesses and roadside infrastructure in the fluorescent era. In 1999, the National Route Conservation Act 66 allocated $ 10 million in matching funds suitable for personal restoration and preservation of historic properties along the route. The road popularized through John Steinbeck's
For many small towns bypassed by the Interstate highway, embracing the nostalgia of the 1950s and historic restoration brought a much-needed tourism dollar to restore a declining local economy. Many vintage motels, some dating the era of a 1930s cabin palace, have been renovated, restored, and added to the US National Register of Historic Places or local and state lists. While a handful is replaced as either low-income housing, boutique hotels, apartments, or commercial/office space, many are being restored as motels.
While some modern facilities (such as wi-fi or flatscreen TV) can appear in newly refurbished rooms, exterior architecture and neon highway signage are meticulously restored to the original design. In 2012, Route 66 travelers spend $ 38 million/year visiting historical sites and museums in communities on former highways, with $ 94 million annually invested in inheritance preservation; The Motels Route 66 was announced as the upcoming documentary.
International variation
The initial motel was built in the southwest United States as a substitute for tourist camps and tourist cabins that grew up around the US highway system. In Australia and New Zealand, motels have followed most of the same development paths as in Canada and the United States. The first Australian Motel included the West End Motel in Ballina, New South Wales (1937) and Penzance Motel in Eagle Hawk, Tasmania (1939).
Motels gain international popularity in countries such as Thailand, Germany and Japan but in some countries, the term "motel" now connotes as a low-end hotel (like a Formule 1 Hotel in Europe) or motel without permission.
Canada
As in the US, the early 1930s roadside accommodation was a primitive tourist camp, with over a hundred enlisted camps in Ontario alone on a 1930 provincial roadmap. While most of it provides access to the most basic facilities (such as picnic tables, playgrounds, toilets and supplies), less than a quarter of cottages offer in the pre-Depression era, and most travelers are required to bring their own tents. In the Canadian climate, these sites effectively can not be used outside of the peak season.
Since cabins and camps are not suitable for Canadian winters, the number and variety of motels grew dramatically after World War II, culminating just before the highway as the Ontario Highway 401 opened in the 1960s. Due to the Canadian climate and the brief holiday season, which begins on Victoria Day and continues until Labor Day or Thanksgiving Day, any outdoor swimming pool will be usable for more than two months of the year and independent motels will operate at a loss or closing during the end of the season.
In the 1980s, motels lost ground quickly to franchises such as Journey's End Corporation and US-based chains. Part of Highway 7 between Modeland Road and Airport Road, known as the "Golden Mile" for a large number of motels and restaurants passed after Highway 402 was completed in 1982, but the Golden Mile still retains points of interest such as Sarnia Airport and Hiawatha Racetrack and Waterpark.
Many Canadians gather in small areas in the south. While the Windsor-QuÃÆ' Ã… © cor corridor is passed by a relatively early highway, in the more sparsely populated areas (including most of northern Ontario) thousands of kilometers off the Trans-Canada highway, most of the two lines remain uninterrupted as the road makes its long journey to the west through small, remote and isolated communities.
Europe
The original concept of a motel as a biker hotel that grew up around a 1920s highway is of American origin. The term originally had the same meaning in other countries, but has since been used in many places to refer to cheap hotels with limited facilities or love hotels, depending on country and language. The division between motel and hotel, like elsewhere, has been blurred, so many of them are low-end hotels.
In France, motel-style chain accommodation up to three floors (with exterior hallways and stairs) is marketed as a "one-star hotel". The Louvre HÃÆ'Â'tels chain operates PremiÃÆ'¨re Classe (1 star) as a market segmentation brand within this range, using other marques for higher or mid-range hotels. The use of "motel" to identify any low-priced lodging hotels ( Rasthaus , RaststÃÆ'¤tte ) is also available in German; some French networks operating in Germany (such as Accor's Hotel Formule 1) offer automatic and small room registration, Spartan at a cheaper cost.
In Portuguese, the "motel" (plural: "motÃÆ' Ã… © is") usually does not refer to the original accommodation accommodation house for the rider but to the "adult motel" or the hotel loves with amenities such as a jacuzzi bath, in-room pornography, candles and beds large or non-standard size in various styles of honeymoon. These rooms are available for only four hours, and minors are removed from these places. (The Portuguese term "rotel" had a short use in the 1970s Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for a similar concept, ro- for rooms where clients spin in hours rather than overnight.)
A similar "motel" association for short-term hotels with provided parking and luxury rooms that a couple can rent for several hours has begun to emerge in Italy, where the market segment has shown significant growth since the 1990s and is becoming very competitive.
South America
In Central and South America, "motel" (in Mexico, "Motel de paso") is a place often associated with extra-marital meetings and is usually rented for several hours (15 minutes to 12 hours). In Ecuador, any establishment with the title "Motel" is associated with an out-of-wedlock meeting; in Argentina and Peru these hotels for couples are called "albergue transitorio" ("temporary shelter") and are offered for anything from a few hours to overnight, with dà ©  © cor based on amenities such as dim lights, jacuzzi and large size venues sleep. In other Spanish-speaking countries, these companies have other slang names such as "mueble", "amueblado" ("furniture", "furniture rental") or "telo".
In the Dominican Republic, the "cabin" (named for its cabin shape) has all these facilities (such as a jacuzzi, large bed and HDTV) but generally has no windows, and has private parking for each room individually. Registration is not handled conventionally but, upon entering the room, by submitting a bill with registration through a small window that does not allow eye contact to ensure greater discretion.
The "motel" connotation as an adult motel or a love hotel in Spanish and Portuguese can be awkward for US based chains accustomed to using the term in its original sense, although the problem is diminishing as chains (like Super 8 Motels) are increasingly dropping the word " motel "from their corporate identity at home.
Forbidden and criminal activity
Many car camps are used as shelters and hideouts for criminals in the 1920s; Bonnie and Clyde filed a shootout at the famous Red Crown Tourist Court near Kansas City on July 20, 1933. Courtney Ryley Cooper in 1940 American magazine the "Camps of Crime" article linked to J. Edgar Hoover a condemnation against the tourism court as an operating base for gangs of despair, claiming that "a large number of roadside cottage groups are apparently not a tourist camp but task camps" and alleging that "cannabis sellers have been found around such places. "
Today there are new homes of crime in America, new home diseases, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, theft and murder. There are some big cases in the FBI that involve a long pursuit in which street crimes are not responsible for some form of easy lawlessness, as it provides a comfortable hiding place, to hide the criminals through loose registrations... most 35,000 US tourist camps threaten the peace and welfare of the communities in which these camps have bound themselves and all of us who make up the general public. Many of them are not only hiding places and meeting places, but the actual operating base from which desperate gangs prey on the surrounding area... The FBI files are filled with examples of gangsters hiding in unregulated tourist camps. , while officers comb the country for them. There is no routine checking of registers by detectives - often no registers at all, or just ledgers filled with indiscriminate scrawls and the relentless repetition of 'John Smith and wife'... Therefore a short command that comes out every day for law enforcement agencies when the criminals roam: 'STAY CONVERT ON THIS WEATHER TOUR!'
Ultimately, attempts to curb the infinite growth of tourism courts are useless because motor vehicle courts (such as the so-called motels of the 1930s and 1940s) grew in number and popularity.
The motel has been a haven for fugitives in the past because simple anonymity and registration processes help fugitives to stay ahead of the law. Some changes have reduced the capacity of the motel to serve this purpose. In many jurisdictions, regulations now require motel operators to obtain IDs from clients and meet certain record keeping requirements. Credit card transactions, which in the past have been more easily approved and require days to be reported, are now approved or rejected in place and directly recorded in the database, enabling law enforcement access to this information.
Motels that allow cheaply rented rooms for less than one full night's stay or that allow couples not wanting to be seen together to enter the room without passing the office or lobby area have been dubbed "motels do not know" due to their long association with adultery. Even where rooms are rented overnight for middle-class travelers (and not locals or long-term clients) there is a persistent problem with the theft of motel properties by travelers; everything from water mattresses to television sets to bed sheets and pillows, has been routinely lost in one of the 1970s Associated Press reports labeled "highway robbery."
The most expensive motels sometimes serve as temporary housing for people who can not afford to buy an apartment or have just lost their home. Motel catering for long term stays sometimes has a kitchen or efficiency, or a motel room with a kitchen. While conventional apartments are more cost-effective with better facilities, tenants can not pay first and last month's rent or are unwanted because unemployment, criminal records or credit problems are indeed looking for low-end residential motels due to the lack of decent short-term options.
Motels in low-income areas are often hit by drug activity, street prostitution, or other crimes. Some prison officials temporarily place newly released prisoners into the motel if so they have no place to live. This motel has daily to monthly rates.
According to the Problem Oriented Policing Center,
In the 1930s and 1940s, individually owned and operated motels offer travelers a range of relatively safe and eclectic lodging options. In the 1950s, companies such as Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson sought to capitalize on the growing national travel market by offering consumer brand names, standard inns. Interstate highways built in the 1950s and 1960s favored the chain by redirecting biker routes away from older and independent companies, many of which lie along old streets parallel to - but difficult to access of - new. Interstate. In some cases, large motel chains build their properties right on the exit of interstate; Motorists looking for independent motels should skip chains and roam farther from the interstate to find them. The smaller non-chain motels have difficulty competing with large national chains in these situations. To survive economically, they begin to serve the lower market; some turn into adult motels, while others serve as housing for low-income people. Unable to afford the cost of maintenance, many of the formerly ancient motels were damaged and became a haven for crime and chaos.
The number of annual calls for service to the police department per room ("CFS/room") as a metric has been used to identify motels with poor visitor oversight, inadequate staff or management who do not want to proactively exclude tenants of known or probable problems. Motels with poor security in poor neighborhoods attract disturbances (including guests who will not go or pay), robbery, car theft and theft of rooms or vehicles, vandalism, public poisoning and alcoholism, drug trafficking or secret laboratories methamphetamine, fights, street gang activity, pimps and street prostitution or sexual assault.
Originally built to accommodate adventurous travelers of the 1930s and 1940s, the motel is marketed as a driver-friendly - motorists can drive directly to their rooms. Ironically, what was originally a selling point is one of the most damaging aspects of a motel, from a crime prevention standpoint. Direct access to rooms allows guests with troubles and visitors to come and go unseen by motel personnel. Regardless of size, motels with pedestrian and unattended access to rooms can be difficult to manage, and may have relatively high number of service calls if they serve risky customers.
Due to severe unlawful behavioral issues affecting the environment as a whole, some municipalities have adopted a strategy to reduce public health disruption and fire safety violations or tax laws as a pretext to shut down bad motels. City regulations like Seattle's "Chronic Property Disorder" have also been used to punish the owner or close a business entirely.
In popular culture
The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho , a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho . The sequel film, Psycho II and Psycho III, also featured the motel, as did the 1987 Bats Motel television. . This motel made an appearance at Psycho IV: The Beginning , but it does not show up as much in previous movies. The Bates Motel again became famous in the 1998 remake of the original film, as well as the 2013 television series Bates Motel . In a special TV 2010 Halloween Scared Shrekless , Puss in Boots tells a warning story about "Boots Motel".
The scenario of a remote motel operated by a serial killer, whose guests were subsequently victimized, has been exploited in a number of other horror films, especially Motel Hell 1980 and Mountaintop Motel Massacre. (1986). Recently, the genre has been revived with films like Mayhem Motel (2001), Inner Killings (2005), Jobs (2007 ), and a live prequel to the video, Vacant 2: The First Cut (2009).
Some of these horror films also include sub-themes of voyeurism, in which motel owners spy (or even film) the sexual exploitation of the guests. It plays a long-built connotation in motels and illicit sexual activity, which in itself has become the basis for a number of other films, which vary widely on thriller, comedy, teen, and sexploitation. Stephen C. Apostolof's Motel Confidential (1967) and porn movie Motel for Lovers (1970) are two important early examples. Recent manifestations include Paradise Garden, 1985, Talking Walls 1987, Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991), and Korean film < i> Motel Cactus (1997) and The Motel (2005).
In countless other films and TV series, the motel - always described as isolated, shabby, and shabby - has served as a place for dirty events that often involve equally cruel characters. Examples include Pink Motel (1982), Motel Blue 19 (1993), Backroad Motel (2001), Stateline Motel > (2003), Niagara Motel (2006), and Motel 5150 (2008).
On TV The Simpsons , the Sleep Eazy Motel signage displays its name with the missing neon light segment, "Sl e e pE azy Motel", a tariff advertising advertising motel rotten and adult movies. The motel cockroach and motel stereotyping motels continue with various motels in the series, including Happy Earwig Motel and Worst Western.
In the movie Sparkle Lite Motel (2006) and the TV miniseries The Lost Room (2006), the motel made a shadow into the science fiction scene. In the Pixar animated Cars (2006), anthropomorphic vehicle customers solely require that all hotels become motels where clients drive directly to their rooms; smart innuendo to a real Route 66 motel on the American National Historic Site List. Design Cozy Cone Motel is a Wigwam Motel on US Route 66 in Arizona with the slogan "100% Refrigerated Air" neon from Tucumcari, Blue Swallow Motel New Mexico; The Wheel Well Motel name offends a stone-restored Wheel Motel wagon in Cuba, Missouri. The long-dead "Glenn Rio Motel" reminds the ghost town of Route 68, Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas, which is now a national historic district on the state line. Glenrio once boasted "First Motel in Texas" (as seen when arriving from New Mexico) or "Last Motel in Texas" (same motel, the signboard is seen from the opposite side).
In the literature, Ian Fleming's
In computer games, Motel Killings is an online text game by Sean D. Wagle, which is hosted on various dial-up bulletin board systems (1980s, originally Color64, ported to various other platforms). The object is every player trying to kill all the friends in every motel room by using various weapons.
In the theater, the rundown motel room has arrangements to play two people like Same Time, Next Year (1975) and Bug (2006). Both were later adapted as films. Broadway musical also pay homage to the reputation of the lowbrow culture of the motel, shown by songs like "The No-Tel Motel" of Prettybelle and At the Bed-D-by Motel from Lolita, My dear.
British soap opera Crossroads was founded in a motel in the English Midlands that was originally based on an American-style motel with a chalet but later converted into a luxury country hotel.
See also
- List of motels
- List of hotels
- List of dead hotel chains - including motels
Note
References
External links
- Motel Americana - a page devoted to the history, narration, and design of postwar motels
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