The major hotel franchisors Sample Clauses

The major hotel franchisors. The concept of franchising goes back to the middle ages when the Catholic Church granted franchises to tax collectors in return for the percentage of their money and in the mid-nineteenth century, Xxxxxx was the first company to use franchising as a mean of distributing its products (Cunill, 2006). In relation to hotel franchising, the origin can be traced back to the 1950s when Holiday Inn established a hotel franchise business (Xxxxxxx, 1999). Franchising developed in the hotel industry in the 1960s with the expansion of Holiday Inn (Pine et al., 2000). The original Holiday Inn chain of hotels was founded in 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, by Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx to provide inexpensive family accommodation for travellers within the USA (Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxx, 2006). In 1957, Xxxxxx began to franchise the Holiday Inn as a chain within the USA, ensuring that the properties were clean, predictable, and readily accessible to road travellers (Holiday Inn, 2007).
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  • Franchise Area The incorporated area (entire existing territorial limits) of the LFA, and such additional areas as may be annexed or acquired.

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  • Project Owner Enter the name of the unit of government, agency or mortgagor entity submitting this report. Check box as appropriate.

  • Property Management Borrower will provide for professional management of the Mortgaged Property by the Property Manager at all times under a property management agreement approved by Lender in writing. Borrower will not surrender, terminate, cancel, modify, renew or extend its property management agreement, or enter into any other agreement relating to the management or operation of the Mortgaged Property with Property Manager or any other Person, or consent to the assignment by the Property Manager of its interest under such property management agreement, in each case without the consent of Lender, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld.

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