By Chryssa Marinou Mark Twain, “America’s premier traveling spokesperson,” boarded the Quaker City in 1967 to enjoy “the Quaker City Pleasure Excursion, a highly publicized…
anna29/03/2021
By Chryssa Marinou Elizabeth Bowen’s 1923 short story entitled “Salon des Dames” offers a view of the hotel space in the aftermath of World War…
anna13/02/2021
by Chryssa Marinou Walter Benjamin goes to Nice in July 1932 and books into the Hotel du Petit Parc. According to Esther Leslie’s Walter Benjamin,…
admin09/01/2021
by Athanasios Dimakis Anthony Trollope and Amelia Edwards at the Cairo Shepheard’s Colonial hotels like the Cairo Shepheard’s foreground the centrality of grand hotels in…
admin08/01/2021
By Athanasios Dimakis In “VI The Future” of Paris Nights: And Other Impressions of Places and People, Arnold Bennett underscores the opulence and sparkle…
admin23/12/2020
by Chryssa Marinou The travelogue was originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly. James tours several…
admin01/09/2020
by Chryssa Marinou Michail Mitsakis (c. 1868 – 1916) first published his short story “Αυτόχειρ” (“By His Own Hand”) in the newspaper Acropolis in…
admin27/05/2020
By Chryssa Marinou “In the world of hotels it was currently stated that, next to the proprietor, there were three gods at the Grand Babylon…
admin16/05/2020
