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Hospitality industry is a current term to refer … a wide range of businesses, dedicated to the service … people away from home. The industry is concerned with their accommodation (provision … places to stay), provision … fare (food at table), transportation (traveling and tours), and recreation (relaxation and entertainment).

The word hospitality comes … “hospice”, an old French word meaning “to provide care and shelter”. The first institutions of this kind, taverns, had existed long before the word was coined. … ancient Rome they were located … the main roads, to provide food and fresh horses and overnight accommodation … officials and couriers … the government … special documents. The contemporaries proclaimed these inns to be “fit for a king”. That is why such documents became a symbol … status and were subject … thefts and forgeries.

Some wealthy landowners built their own taverns … the edges … their estates. Nearer the cities, inns and taverns were run … freemen or … retired gladiators who would invest their savings … this business … the same way that many … today’s retired athletes open restaurants. Innkeepers, … a whole, were hardly the Conrad Hiltons … their day. Inns … common folk were regarded as dens … vice and often served … houses … pleasure. The owners were required to report any customers who planned crimes … their taverns. The penalty … not doing so was death. The death penalty could be imposed merely … watering the beer!

After the fall … the Roman Empire, public hospitality … the ordinary travelers became the province … religious orders. … these days, the main purpose … traveling was pilgrimage … the holy places. The pilgrims preferred to stay … the inns located close … religious sites or even … the premises … the monasteries. Monks raised their own provisions … their own grounds; kitchens were cleaner and better organized than … private households. So the food was often … a quality superior to that found elsewhere … the road.

As travel increased during the Middle Ages, so did the number … wayside inns. … England, the stagecoach became the favored method … transportation. A journey … London … a city like Bath took three days, with several stopovers … inns or taverns that were also called “post houses”. Guests often slept … mattresses put … what would be called the lobby, ate what they had brought … them or what they could purchase … the house. The fare was usually bread, meat, and beer, varied occasionally … fish. Frequently, the main dish served was a long-cooked, highly seasoned meat-and-vegetable stew. But the diners who were frequenters were not choosy; neither did they often question what they were eating.

(English: Hotel, Restaurant and Tourist Business)