Lodging Management Exam #1
questions fully solved
tourism - correct answer ✔✔ hospitality, retail, transportation services, destination sites
hospitality - correct answer ✔✔ lodging operations, F&B operations
lodging - correct answer ✔✔ a place in which someone lives or stays temporarily; a room or
rooms rented out
The Green Book - correct answer ✔✔
hotels founded - correct answer ✔✔ 18th century
Ancient Greek & Romans - correct answer ✔✔ start of hospitality; provide accomodation and
food for travelers
The Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔ inns offered a bed and supper especially for people
traveling for religious reasons
The City Hotel - correct answer ✔✔ NYC, 1792
Tremont House - correct answer ✔✔ Boston, 1829
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company - correct answer ✔✔ 1822
, jet aircrafts - correct answer ✔✔ 1960s
real estate market growth - correct answer ✔✔ 1983
horseback and stagecoach - correct answer ✔✔ inns were developed on roadsides
trains and ship travel - correct answer ✔✔ train stations and port cities formed with inns
automobile - correct answer ✔✔ motels created
airlines - correct answer ✔✔ convention and resort hotels
current industry (nationwide) - correct answer ✔✔ 54,000 hotels; 8 million jobs; 5 million
guests/ day; $1,100,000,000,000 in sales; 61% of hotels are small businesses; one of the top 10
industries in 49/50 states
current industry (Virginia) - correct answer ✔✔ 1,500 properties; 152,929 guest rooms; 197,087
jobs
unique characteristics - correct answer ✔✔ inseparability of manufacture and sales,
perishability, repetitiveness, labor intensive
types of properties - correct answer ✔✔ convention, luxury, resort, condo, all-suite, limited,
conference center, casino, airport, boutique, independent
mega - correct answer ✔✔ 1,000+ rooms
large - correct answer ✔✔ 300+ rooms
questions fully solved
tourism - correct answer ✔✔ hospitality, retail, transportation services, destination sites
hospitality - correct answer ✔✔ lodging operations, F&B operations
lodging - correct answer ✔✔ a place in which someone lives or stays temporarily; a room or
rooms rented out
The Green Book - correct answer ✔✔
hotels founded - correct answer ✔✔ 18th century
Ancient Greek & Romans - correct answer ✔✔ start of hospitality; provide accomodation and
food for travelers
The Middle Ages - correct answer ✔✔ inns offered a bed and supper especially for people
traveling for religious reasons
The City Hotel - correct answer ✔✔ NYC, 1792
Tremont House - correct answer ✔✔ Boston, 1829
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company - correct answer ✔✔ 1822
, jet aircrafts - correct answer ✔✔ 1960s
real estate market growth - correct answer ✔✔ 1983
horseback and stagecoach - correct answer ✔✔ inns were developed on roadsides
trains and ship travel - correct answer ✔✔ train stations and port cities formed with inns
automobile - correct answer ✔✔ motels created
airlines - correct answer ✔✔ convention and resort hotels
current industry (nationwide) - correct answer ✔✔ 54,000 hotels; 8 million jobs; 5 million
guests/ day; $1,100,000,000,000 in sales; 61% of hotels are small businesses; one of the top 10
industries in 49/50 states
current industry (Virginia) - correct answer ✔✔ 1,500 properties; 152,929 guest rooms; 197,087
jobs
unique characteristics - correct answer ✔✔ inseparability of manufacture and sales,
perishability, repetitiveness, labor intensive
types of properties - correct answer ✔✔ convention, luxury, resort, condo, all-suite, limited,
conference center, casino, airport, boutique, independent
mega - correct answer ✔✔ 1,000+ rooms
large - correct answer ✔✔ 300+ rooms
