Hospitality History: 1950-2012 By kaychris90 Jan 1, 1952 Kemmons Wilson opens the first Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee Jan 1, 1953 American Airlines C.R. Smith and IBM’s R. Blair Smith meet and forge an alliance to improve the Reservisor system Jan 1, 1957 J.W. Marriott opens first motel, Twin Bridges Jan 1, 1964 SABRE was completed Jan 1, 1968 Delta’s DATAS launches Jan 1, 1969 The first ARPANET link is create between the University of California and Stanford University Jan 1, 1971 United’s Apollo launches Jan 1, 1972 TWA’s PARS launches Jan 1, 1974 First recorded use of the term Internet in December by the Network Working Group Jan 1, 1978 TCP/IP transmission protocol makes debut Jan 1, 1979 AOL and Prodigy emerge as dial-in networks for e-mail, brought by CompuServe Jan 1, 1987 Air France and Lufthansa develop the Amadeus CRS Jan 1, 1988 Videcom, the first multi-access global reservations system is migrated into the Galileo CRS Jan 1, 1990 First mobile phone the Nokia 9000 Communicator is launched in Finland Jan 1, 1990 Delta, Trans World and Northwest Airlines form Worldspan Jan 1, 1993 British Airways, KLM and United create Galileo based on the Apollo platform Jan 1, 2001 Blackberry launches the first phone-based e-mail delivery system Sep 11, 2001 Travel declines 80% due to attacks on WTC and Pentagon Jan 1, 2006 Travelport, owner of Galileo purchases Worldspan and immediately controls 46% of the travel agency market Jan 1, 2008 The Hospitality Performance Group (HPG) is launched; begins electronic marketing Jan 1, 2009 One of HPG’s 1st clients beats all competitors in the Orlando market for occupancy and RevPar in Q-1 Jan 1, 2012 PromoNet® promotional couponing solution has been chosen as the winner in the "revenue generation"