It is true that the study on tourism is in itself so boundless that there has been a wide difference in its objects and research methods. However, since so far studies in this special field have been primarily made from the economic and social point o...
It is true that the study on tourism is in itself so boundless that there has been a wide difference in its objects and research methods. However, since so far studies in this special field have been primarily made from the economic and social point of view, today, the need for a scientific research on hotel business seems to be becoming more and more acute to meet the increasing demand for international tourism as a whole.
In this study I have made a comparative study on the course of shift in accommodations from the angle of social science and history. But no one denys that the hotel business in tourist industry has proved to be the most viable business in that it excells others in profit, the acquisition of foreign exchanges, the effect of the increase in employment, and the outstanding contribution to the' promotion and dissemination of social culture. Also seen from the management's viewpoint, the hotel industry is so effective in increasing fixed assets that today it has come to play a decisive role in the promotion of service industry. For this reason, today the lodging industry has come to. be called the second important business in human history.
Since there was no any historical record to be found before the emergence of modern hotels as a large-scale enterprise, to say nothing of any theoretical researches on the process of transition in hotel management, this study seems to be valuable as well as meaningful.
Especially in Korea, the conception of hotel seems to have been derived from Western civilization, and it is only since the late nineteenth century that with Korea's open-door policy, a few hotels such as Daebul Hotel, Sontag Hotel, and Station Hotel, have come into being for the first time in Korea even under the Japancese colonial rule.
In this study I have also examined in detail when and how 'il turismo statico' meaning "static tourism," an ancient form of tourism, has developed into the modern form of hotel, comparing historical ideas of hotel. And it is also ture that it was not until the 1930s that the theory of tourism acheived synthesis. The study of tourism until the second World War seems to have undergone an epockmaking changes in the history of tourism as its zenith.
Since, especially in the' range of the study of tourism, the historical form of study can be directly assembled into the history of tourism or hotel management, I have suggested in this study a historical method of research including the history of hotel management in tourism in general as a basic subsidiary science of the general theory of tourism.
In this research I have adopted an analytic method of study instead of a dynamic one employed in the past, consulting Robert B. Ludy's "Historic Hotels of the World" and at the same time adopting the intuitive technique and the positive research method in actual relation with the contemporary social science concerning the history of hotel management.
Finally, I can only hope that future students of hotel management may derive some little help from my labours. And it is my earnest desire to thank the writers for the invaluable information and suggestions accorded to me in this study.