Divide the text into other logical parts and entitle each of them .

15. Give a summary of text.

 

Case Study

CANADIAN PACIFIC HOTELS (Part 1)

Background:

The Canadian Pacific Hotel company started in 1886 has restored all its hotels to their original grandeur and refurbished each hotel to meet business travelers' needs.

Read the supporting article and provide detailed answers to the case questions below.

 

 

The Canadian Pacific Hotel company started in 1886 with the com­pletion of the Mount Stephen House in Kicking Horse Valley, Canada, William Cornelius Van Home decided to build a series of «dining sta­tions* along the first Canadian transcontinental railroad to accommodate travelers. During the next year, two more stations were built — Glaciel House and Fraser Canyon House — and by 1908, Van Home had built four more stations.

The look of Van Home's hotels was remarkable, and traveler) enjoyed seeing them. He designed hotels to look like European castle) and Canadian author R.G. MacBeth called the hotels «palatial and ro­mantic*. Expansion of Canadian Pacific Hotels continued through the twentieth century, with hotels located in British Columbia, the Rocky Mountains, Urban Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. Ca­nadian Pacific Hotels currently has a total of twenty-six hotels, with 11,116 rooms and 10,000 employees throughout Canada.

In 1987, Canadian Pacific began to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur. Each hotel was renovated and refurbished, and rooms, restaurants, and health clubs were added to many of the hotels.

City-Centre hotels are now equipped with modernized busyness) amenities to meet a business traveler's needs. The rooms feature a desk, two phones, a desk drawer organizer with supplies, a fax service, and other services including express check-out. Many hotels contain work centers for business travelers who prefer a place to work other than their room. [1,146]

(to be continued)

 

 

Vocabulary notes

completion                                              зд. завершение, окончание строительства       transcontinental railroad                       транспортная ж/д магистраль

                                                                            

to accommodate                                     предоставлять жилье, помещение для                                                                              проживания                     

castle                                                       замок, дворец, большой дом (напоминающий                                                                замок)                                                     palatial                                       зд. похожий на (настоящий) дворец; богатый,                                                                великолепный; богатство, роскошь                 grandeur                                           грандиозность; великолепие; богатство,                                                                         роскошь                                                                    to renovate                                      обновлять здание путем ремонта               to refurbish (smth.)                            подновлять, освежать, наводить блеск (на                                                                            что-либо)                                                            health club                                           оздоровительный клуб

Case questions:

1. When did the Canadian Pacific Hotel company start?

2. What did it start with?

3. Where did William Cornelius Van Home decide to build a series of «dining stations»? What for?

4. Why did R.G. MacBeth call the hotels «palatial and romantic»?

5. When did Canadian Pacific begin to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur?

6. What are typical City-Centre hotels normally equipped with?

7. Whom are work centers designed for?

 

 

Role-play:

Pretend you are a City-Centre hotel owner in Nizhny Novgorod, You are planning to renovate and refurbish the hotel to better meet busi­ness travelers' needs. What exactly will you be doing?

While making your decision consider the following possible steps:

• to restore the hotel to its original grandeur;

• to add two more restaurants and a health club;

• to equip rooms with modernized business amenities;

• to add a work center for business travelers.

2. Identify key points in the article and extract information from it to pass on to your partner.

3. Let your partner see whether key points identified by you are the same as those covered in the article. Let him agree or disagree with you.

 

 

UNIT 4

TYPES OF HOTELS (Part 1)

1. Read and translate the following international words:

busyness

guest

luxury

concierge

fax

salon

condition

construct

ultimate

rate

center

boom

park

special

machine

convention

service

stimulate

airport

land

economy

residential

service

computer

urban

valet

doctor

project

major