The development of the world's hotel industry has experienced four periods:

1. Ancient inn period (12th century, 18th century), the inn is with the development of commodity production and commodity exchange and gradually developed. The earliest inns, which can be traced back to the end of human primitive society and the beginning of the slave society, were created to meet the requirements of diplomatic exchanges, religious and commercial travel, imperial and aristocratic cruises and other activities in ancient countries.

2. luxury hotel period (the end of the 18th century and the mid-19th century) with the capitalist economy and the emergence and development of tourism, tourism began to become an economic activity, specializing in luxury hotels for the upper ruling class came into being. On the European continent appeared a lot of "hotel" named accommodation facilities.

3. Commercial hotel period (the end of the 19th century, the 1950s) commercial hotel period, is the world's most active hotel era. It is an important stage in the development of the hotel industry, it makes the hotel industry eventually become a general civilian service object industry, it is from all aspects of the modern hotel industry, the basis of Mo Ding.

4. Modern new hotel period (after the 1950s), after World War II, with the worldwide economic recovery and prosperity, rapid population growth, the world appeared international mass tourism. People's disposable income increases, the rapid expansion of people traveling abroad and enjoying hotel services, accelerating the popularization of tourism activities and the world's political, economic, cultural and other aspects of the frequent interaction. This change in social demand, prompting the hotel industry thus entered the modern hotel period.

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Tourism and business activities have been around since ancient times, and hotels and restaurants were born. Legend has it that the initial European accommodation facilities began in the Roman period, the development process has experienced the so-called ancient inn period, the period of large hotels, commercial hotels, and other phases, during which there were several ups and downs. After the Second World War, Europe and the United States with the economic situation and the continuous development of tourism into a new hotel period, and gradually formed a huge independent hotel industry.

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