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Article: 40 Years Later, Our Mission Continues.(Hotels magazine)
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- August 1, 2006
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By Dan Hogan, Publisher
In 1966 Fergus Mckeever launched a magazine called Service World International to serve the information needs of the global hotel industry. The magazine later became known as Hotels & Restaurants International , and under Don Lock became HOTELS magazine. Over these past 40 years, business and leisure travel on a worldwide basis have exploded, and the hotel chains have expanded rapidly to serve the needs of the new global traveler.
Doing business in other countries brought additional challenges to hoteliers as they learned to deal with myriad new issues. These issues included language and cultural differences, food, technology, ...