酒店英语课件王燕华 黄培希主编ISBN 9787566307507 PPTunit5.pptVIP

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * back 酒店英语 Part Four : Text B Para.2 A Conrad Hilton was born in New Mexico, the second of eight children. Before he was 18, Conrad had worked as a trader, a clerk and a bellboy. By age 25, he had also worked in politics and banking. He joined the army during the First War. In 1919, after the death of his father, Hilton left the army and went to Texas. He had intended to make some money in the oil boom by buying a small bank. But when he found bank prices too high and hotels so overbooked that he could not find a place to sleep, he changed his mind. next next back back 酒店英语 Part Four : Text B Para.2 B When one hotel owner in Texas, complained he would like to sell his hotel in order to make the best of the oil boom, Hilton seized the chance. He won the help of an investment group and the funds were sent within a week. The hotel, The Mobley, became Hiltons first hotel. next next back back 酒店英语 Part Four : Text B Para.3 In 1970, Barron Hilton tried to collect $112 million to buy two casino-hotels in Las Vegas. They had brought the largest percentage of the companys income within a decade. Conrad Hilton had first tried gaming in a casino in the late 1940s. Since then, he had been thinking about building casino-hotels, which led to the purchase of the Las Vegas Hilton and the Flamingo Hilton. This move paid for itself, particularly during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the occupancy rate at both hotels remained steady in contrast to industry-wide high vacancy rate. next next back back 酒店英语 Part Four : Text B Para.4 Barron Hilton then focused on franchising the Hilton name and managing other hotels. In 1973, the company launched a computerized hotel reservation named HILTRON. The system served not only the Hilton chain but was also employed by other chains in the industry, providing yet anoth