Slide Show: ‘A History of the Hotel’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  11.28.07 | 10:21 AM ET

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Photo of the Las Vegas Hilton by Markyboy81, via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Modern hotels trace their history to early America, and Slate currently has a terrific slide show from A.K. Sandoval-Strausz depicting just how the country built and shaped them. “The hospitality industry is one of the fastest-growing segments of the international economy,” Sandoval-Strausz writes. “So it is easy to forget that the hotel, as we know it today, was once a new invention, an experiment that initially met with failure and endured periods of slow, halting development.”