California Resort
California Desert Managers Group
The workshop will be held at the Agua Caliente Tribe’s Spa Resort Hotel March 24, 2004. Workshop starts at 8 AM till 12 Noon. Registration begins at 7 AM. The Spa Resort Hotel is located in Palm Springs at 100 North Indian Canyon Drive. ... [Read More]
Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians - Pechanga Resort & Casino
Since its opening, the success of the new Pechanga Resort & Casino has earned the Pechanga Band a reputation for business leadership locally and nationally in the tribal government gaming industry, continuing a tradition that began with the Pechanga Resort Center. The PRC has set a new standard in Indian gaming facilities in California and across the country. In 2002, it was awarded a coveted Four Diamond designation by the American Automobile Association Tour Book. It features first-class restaurants and routinely hosts Broadway-caliber theater shows and musicals. Looking Towards Economic Diversification ... [Read More]
Samuel P. Taylor SP
Taylor built a resort hotel and Camp Taylor, one of the first sites in the US to offer camping as a recreational pursuit. The area was one of California's most popular and well-known weekend recreation destinations in the 1870s-80s. ... [Read More]
California FAIR Plan
FAIR Plan insurance coverage is generally available inspecifically designated urban, inner city and brush fires areas in California. Specific areas may also be designated as eligible for FAIR Plan coverage if, afterdiligent effort (evidenced by written rejections from three insurers), the person wishingto insure the property has been unable to obtain insurance through the normal insurancemarket. Commissioner's Order of August 24, 2004 [PDF] . As the insurer of last resort, the FAIR Plan should only beused after a diligent search for coverage in the voluntary market. ... [Read More]
Emerald Bay SP
Emerald Bay was designated an underwater state park in 1994. It is the resting place for many boats, launches and barges used in the lake before the turn of the century, during the heyday of Emerald Bay Resort and used in the construction of Vikingsholm. ... The Boat Camp is on the north side of Emerald Bay, about 1/2 mile east of Fannette Island located in the bay on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, at the site of the old Emerald Bay Resort. ... [Read More]
Hotel and Motel Managers
1995 THE JOBInns for lodging have been in existence since ancient times. Beginning in Europe, parts of Asia and Africa as modest sleeping quarters for travelers, they evolved to establishments which offered dining and bathing facilities in the late fifteen century. Rail passenger travel created a greater need for hotels in the nineteenth century, but only a few offered luxuries resembling those offered by resort hotels and inns today. As highways crisscrossed the nation, motor lodges sprang up along them to capitalize on the developing mobility of American families. With modern interstate highway systems, chain-operated motels replaced the motor lodge. As air travel became commonplace, the number of lodging facilities increased dramatically in response to the need for services for business travelers and domestic and international tourism. The lodging facilities of today may offer dining, shopping, laundering, babysitting, hair styling and other services.Inns and hotels began as stop- ... [Read More]
California History Collection
Tourists, of course, bought tickets on the rail lines and patronized restaurants and hotels built by railroads, while new homeowners helped the rail lines sell their land grants in small, profitable building lots. If Easterners did not come to California to farm, they did come to California to live. The expansion of railways through Southern California in the 1880s prompted the calculated promotion of the region as a healthy, comfortable place to make a home. In the middle of the decade, there was even a price war for passenger travel, and fare for a ticket from the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific dropped to $25.00. Railroads wanted not only passengers but prospective homeowners who would buy lots in areas where the rail companies had received government land grants which they now needed to sell. Companies built flashy resort hotels and promoters offered every kind of gimmick. Many of the new settlements were carefully planned to appeal to buyers with common interests or backgrounds. ... [Read More]
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